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<font size="+1"><font face="Book Antiqua">Hello Peter,<br>
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The following reference cites sixteen Oceanic (Austronesian) languages
with geocentric systems of directionals, similar to those you're
mentioning:<br>
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<li><big>François, Alexandre. 2004. Reconstructing the geocentric
system of Proto Oceanic. <i><br>
Oceanic Linguistics</i> 43-1 (June 2004). Honolulu: University of
Hawai'i Press. Pp. 1-32.</big></li>
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<font size="+1"><font face="Book Antiqua">You will find therein the
bibliographical references to the relevant language descriptions.<br>
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Note that only some of these languages show the morphological pattern
(enclitics) that you're asking for. <br>
By the way, your examples seem to suggest your directionals are affixes
rather than enclitics. Does your query also include affixes?<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Alex.<br>
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Peter Sutton a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone know of a language in which cardinal directions or other compass
points (e.g. SE, NW) have enclitic forms that may be bound to e.g. verbs? I am
working on such a language from north Australia and would like to make
comparisons. For example, /epa/ 'south' (free form), -pa- enclitic form; /oli-
pi-n-pa/ [anger-tr VZR-PAST-south] 'he/she there south was
angry'; /ungka/ 'north' (free form); -(ng)ka- (bound form); oka-n-ka-rra [go-
PAST-north-LOC] 'he/she went northwards'.
Peter Sutton
ARC Professorial Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide,
and Division of Anthropology, South Australian Museum. Honorary Research
Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peter.sutton@adelaide.edu.au"><peter.sutton@adelaide.edu.au></a>
Office: Science Centre, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA
5000, Australia. Phone 61 (0)8 8207 7618, Fax 8207 7222.
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