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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Hi Adam,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">In Tiang (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea),
the proximal visible demonstrative <i>(o)ro</i>
has negative overtones. In its emotional function, it indicates surprise or
anger of the speaker towards the referent marked with <i>(o)ro</i> (Holz 2023: 197–200). This can include situations in which someone violates socially expected behaviours.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Holz, Christoph. 2023. Discourse
functions of ‘visible’ and ‘nonvisible’ demonstratives in Tiang (New Ireland)
and in a cross-linguistic perspective. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L.
Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci & Pema Wangdi (eds.), <i>Celebrating indigenous voice: Legends and narratives in languages of
the tropics and beyond</i>, 181–217. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Best wishes<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Christoph<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>-- <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Christoph Holz</span></b><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, University of Naples L'Orientale<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Adjunct Research
Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQU<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Website: <a href="https://tianglanguage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://tianglanguage.wordpress.com/</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Orcid: <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7997-4928" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7997-4928</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Recent publications:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><a href="https://acquire.cqu.edu.au/articles/thesis/A_comprehensive_grammar_of_Tiang/25182350?file=44461052" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">A comprehensive grammar of Tiang</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><a href="https://www.elararchive.org/dk0759" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Documentation of
Konomala</a><span></span></span></p>
<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 15:32, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Hi all,</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">In Chacobo there seems to be a demonstrative that means "do something) that deviates from socially normal expectations". This is a pretty preliminary description, so I'm open to other ideas and reconceptualizations. I call it 'more distal', as an adnominal marker, it doesn't tend to have this meaning.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:medium">
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">naa</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">nɨa</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">nɨka</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-CA">distal</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">toa</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">toa</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">toka</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-CA">more distal</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">oa</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">oa~oka</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;break-after:avoid;text-indent:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-CA">oka</span></i></p>
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</tbody></table></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">At base the morpheme seems to mean "out of vision", but not always.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">I was wondering whether anyone had written about something similar in another language? Let me know.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Adam</div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Adam J.R. Tallman</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">CNRS, Sedyl</div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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