Deictic marking in adpositions in Ap Ma and Waran

Two neighboring languages of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, Ap Ma (Keram) and Waran (Ramu), exhibit an unusual structure in adpositional phrases. In both languages, all postpositions that govern nouns are obligatorily marked with deictic prefixes that indicate the position of the referent of...

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Published in:	Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Main Authors:	Don Killian, Russell Barlow
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Bologna 2022-04-01
Subjects:	adpositions postpositions deixis demonstratives papuan keram-ramu
Online Access:	https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/13575

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