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<p>In Malay/Indonesian, the ablative "from" is expressed with <i>dari</i>.
And in some but not all varieties of Malay/Indonesian, <i>dari</i>
is also used to mark agents, typically, though not exclusively, in
"passive" or "passive-like" constructions. <br>
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More specifically, the use of <i>dari</i> to mark agents is
characteristic of Eastern contact varieties of Malay; I have heard
it in, among other places, Papua, Halmahera, Ambon, Maluku
Tenggara and Timor. And it is also attested in the Kirinda
subdialect of Sri Lankan Malay.<br>
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(It should be noted that in many such cases, <i>dari</i> is but
one of two or more alternative strategies for flagging agent
phrases.)</p>
<p>David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/07/2018 01:06, Ponrawee
Prasertsom wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Dear all,</span>
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research possibilities on the language of motion events.</div>
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">Does anyone
know of a language that employs the same form (in any
strategy--case, preposition, syntactic roles etc.) that for
coding source (the starting point in a motion event, as in:
I walked *from* my house to school) and agent? </div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Related
references would also be highly appreciated.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Sincerely,</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Ponrawee
Prasertsom</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Graduate
Student</div>
<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Department of
Linguistics</div>
<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Chulalongkorn
University</div>
<div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Bangkok,
Thailand</div>
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