Dual *kita in the history of East Barito languages
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2019.0014" target="_blank" >10.1353/ol.2019.0014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dual *kita in the history of East Barito languages
Original language description
In many Philippine, Northern Sulawesi and Northern Bornean languages, Proto Austronesian *kita ‘1st person inclusive plural’ became a first person inclusive dual pronoun. Robert Blust and Hsiu-chuan Liao attribute this semantic change to drift (a change happening in various related languages independently). However, Lawrence Reid contends that it had already happened in Proto Malayo-Polynesian, and that the ensuing gap in the pronominal system of this ancestral language had been filled by the formation of a new 1st person inclusive plural pronoun, which was based on *kita combined with a pronominal clitic (or “extender”) *=mu. The latter was a 2nd person plural pronoun in Proto Austronesian but after it had lost its plural meaning in Proto Malayo-Polynesian, it was often combined with or replaced by other pronominal extenders. In this squib I show that in East Barito languages (including Malagasy) the 1st person inclusive plural pronoun also derives from a dual *kita with a 2nd person plural extender. Taken in conjunction with the fact that reflexes of *kita also have a dual meaning in various languages in northern Borneo, this suggests that *kita had already a dual meaning in the early history of the West Indonesian subgroup.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60202 - Specific languages
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
OCEANIC LINGUISTICS
ISSN
0029-8115
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Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
414-425
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85081200135