[Lingtyp] languages where 'able, can' and 'until, up to' are polysemous/homophonous

[Smith-Dennis, Ellen]

Happy New Year all!

Could you help?

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.

Many thanks in advance,
Ellen
E.Smith-Dennis at warwick.ac.uk

Dr. Ellen Smith-Dennis, FHEA
Assistant Professor
Widening Participation/Schools Liaison Officer
Centre for Applied Linguistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Email: E.Smith-Dennis at warwick.ac.uk OR E.L.Smith at uon.edu.au
Tel: (+44) (0)24 76 575912 (internal: 75912)
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