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<div>PS regarding my posting about switch-reference: I wonder how many other current typological concepts have a similar checked history of independent invention?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of Alan Rumsey <<a href="mailto:alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au">alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, 4 July 2016 8:31 am<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>>" <<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Lingtyp] Americanist contributions to typology<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Resent-From: </span>Alan Rumsey <<a href="mailto:alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au">alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
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<div>How about the development of the notion of ’switch reference’ as a typological category?</div>
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<div>This is a trick question on my part because although Jacobsen 1967 ‘Switch reference in Hokan-Coahuilecan’ is often cited as the foundational work in this regard, such systems were already well known to German Lutheran missionary linguists working in New
Guinea in the early 20th century, under the term ’Subjekt-Wechsel’. One such system, in Kāte<em> </em>(a<em> </em>Finisterre–Huon language spoken around Finschhafen) was well described by Georg Pilhofer in his (1933) <i>Grammatik der Kāte-Sprache</i>. Pilhofer’s
colleague Hermann Strauss found such a system in the Melpa language (a Chimbu-Wahgi language spoken around Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands) and also described it under the rubric ’Subjekt-Wechsel’ in his unpublished <i>Grammatik der Melpa-Sprache,
</i>which was probably written between the mid 30s and the 1950s.</div>
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