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Colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Tok Pisin and Papapana : independent or contact-induced change?
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Smith-Dennis, Ellen (2023) Colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Tok Pisin and Papapana : independent or contact-induced change? Journal of Language Contact, 15 (3-4). pp. 627-670. doi:10.1163/19552629-15030005 ISSN 1955-2629.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-15030005
Abstract
Considerable research has concerned the influence of Papua New Guinea’s Oceanic languages on the development of the pidgin/creole Tok Pisin, but little research has considered linguistic influence in the opposite direction. This paper adds to both bodies of research by investigating whether the colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Papapana (Oceanic) and Tok Pisin results from internal or contact-induced change. Such a colexification is unattested/rare cross-linguistically therefore I argue that language contact is responsible. The Tok Pisin verb inap ‘enough, able’ grammaticalised as the preposition/subordinator ‘until’ because of semantic extensions by Oceanic language speakers whose languages demonstrate overlapping polysemies. The Papapana verb eangoi colexifies ‘enough’ and ‘able’ (common cross-linguistically), but the colexification with the lexicalised adverb eangoiena ‘able’ and grammaticalised preposition/subordinator eangoiena ‘until’ is pattern replication modelled on Tok Pisin. Based on areal data, I propose a tentative semantic map for enough, contributing to research on cross-linguistic colexification.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tok Pisin language, Papua New Guinea -- Languages, Papapana language (Papua New Guinea) -- Grammar, Oceanic languages -- Grammar, Papapana language | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Language Contact | ||||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
ISSN: | 1955-2629 | ||||||
Official Date: | 26 December 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 15 | ||||||
Number: | 3-4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 627-670 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/19552629-15030005 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 January 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 January 2024 | ||||||
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