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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Ellen,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In Caijia, a non-classified Sino-Tibetan language</span> spoken in Southwestern China<span lang="EN-US">, the morpheme
</span>‘<span lang="EN-US">until</span>,<span lang="EN-US"> to</span>’ (may be derived from the verb ‘reach, arrive’)<span lang="EN-US"> is used as a post-VP CAN modal. For example,</span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>j<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">i²¹ koŋ⁵⁵
<b>to⁵⁵</b> mi²¹</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‘from day to night’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ɔ²¹ la²¹ tsa³³to²¹ po⁵⁵, je²¹ ta⁵⁵-kʰɯ⁵⁵ɣɯ²¹<b> to⁵⁵</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt">this big stone CLF 3SG lift-rise.come can<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt">‘This big stone, he can lift (it).’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this may help.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All my best<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shanshan Lu<o:p></o:p></p>
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</b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:E.Smith-Dennis@warwick.ac.uk">Smith-Dennis, Ellen</a><br>
</span><b>发送时间<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">2021</span>年<span lang="EN-US">1</span>月<span lang="EN-US">5</span>日<span lang="EN-US"> 20:12<br>
</span><b>收件人<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">list, typology</a><br>
</span><b>主题<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">[Lingtyp] languages where 'able, can' and 'until, up to' are polysemous/homophonous</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Could you help?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="d2edcug0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I'm looking for languages where the word for 'able, can' is polysemous/homophonous with 'until, up to, for (X amount of time)'. This is the case
in Papapana (Austronesian, Papua New Guinea) and Tok Pisin (pidgin/creole, PNG) so I'm especially (but not only!) interested in languages of the Pacific region.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Many thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ellen
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">E.Smith-Dennis@warwick.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Ellen Smith-Dennis, FHEA</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Centre for Applied Linguistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Email: E.Smith-Dennis@warwick.ac.uk OR E.L.Smith@uon.edu.au <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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