[Fwd: question for Austronesian list]

[Ulrike Mosel]

Dear all,
In § 6.5 of the attached Teop Sketch Grammar you find examples for the 
adverbs derived by va-. But note that there are all sorts of vaa- and 
va- in Teop. What I said in the Sketch Grammar about word classes is 
currently being revised. Please feel free to ask any questions,
best wishes,
Ulrike

Midori Osumi schrieb:
> Dear Annemarie
>  
> While the verbal prefix /fa/- 'causative'  is attached productively to 
> verbs, either intransitive or transitive (pp113-118), and also 
> it derives ordinal numbers (p46),Tinrin has /ve/ (and not 
> /fa-/)(meaning 'take', as a verb/),/ which occurs as adverbializer 
> (like /ve-harru/ (ve-good) meaning 'well', and often in serial verb 
> constructions (pp 220-221).
>  
> Tinrin Grammar, 1995, University of Hawai'i Press
>  
> best
> Midori Osumi
> Tokyo Woman's Christian University
>  
> 2009/12/11 Wayan Arka <wayan.arka at anu.edu.au 
> <mailto:wayan.arka at anu.edu.au>>
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     This is posted on behalf of Annemarie <annemarie.verkerk at mpi.nl
>     <mailto:annemarie.verkerk at mpi.nl>>.
>     Thanks.
>
>     Best,
>     -Wayan
>
>
>
>     ----
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     we (myself and Benedicte Frostad from Radboud University Nijmegen, the
>     Netherlands) are justing starting on a project concerning the
>     following
>     phenomenon. The prefix which is used for causatives, fa- or va-,
>     reflexes of Proto-Austronesian *paka-, is, in some Oceanic languages,
>     also used in serial verb constructions to derive manner predications,
>     i.e. adverb-like things, as in this example from Hoava:
>
>     Tanini va-hevá.
>     hold CAUS-strong.TR:3SG
>     'Hold it strongly.' Davis (2003: 77)
>
>     or resultative verbs:
>
>     Ego, naní sa, nani va-paho-e.
>     well eat.TR.3PL PRO:3SG eat CAUS-empty-TR.3PL
>     'Well, he ate them, ate and emptied them.' Davis (2003: 161)
>
>     So far, our findings indicate that some Oceanic languages pattern like
>     this, while others do not use the causative marker in this way. Since
>     this seems to be an interesting topic to pursue, we were wondering
>     whether there has been any prior research into this. Since we haven't
>     been able to find any, we would be very grateful if you could
>     inform us
>     of any publications or research concerning this topic.
>
>     with kind regards,
>     Annemarie Verkerk
>     a.verkerk at mpi.nl <mailto:a.verkerk at mpi.nl>
>     Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
>
>
>     --
>
>     Annemarie Verkerk, MA
>     Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture (PhD student)
>     Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
>     P.O. Box 310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>     +31 (0)24 3521 185
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>
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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Mosel
Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Kiel
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