<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Claudia,<div><br></div><div>There are all sorts of terms for 'again' in Western Oceanic, but the one that it reflected frequently is POc *mule, a verb meaning 'return, repeat'. I assume it was used in serial verb constructions in POc and has been grammaticised in various daughter-languages.</div><div><br></div><div>I can't help you with SE Solomonic: 'again' doesn't appear in Tryon and Hackman, and I haven't collected SE Solomonic data myself. Maybe someone else on the list has.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>- Malcolm</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 23/03/2011, at 9:07 PM, C Wegener wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dear all,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I've been trying to find out if there is any reconstruction for Proto-Oceanic (or maybe Proto-Southeast-Solomonic) for a form meaning 'again' or 'also', but so far haven't been successful.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br>The reason why I am interested in this is that there are two lexemes with this meaning found in Gela and Bughotu (both Southeast Solomonic, spoken in the central Solomon Islands),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; ">ghua</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(following a verb or a noun/NP) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; ">ghoi</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(positioned between a subject/TAM marker at the beginning of a verb complex and a verb). Is any evidence for either of these to be 'proper' Oceanic?<br><br>I'd be grateful for any information or references!<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Claudia Wegener<br><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>An-lang mailing list<br><a href="mailto:An-lang@anu.edu.au">An-lang@anu.edu.au</a><br><a href="http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/an-lang">http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/an-lang</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>