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A Proto-Oceanic Passive? Evidence from Bola and Natügu
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Endangered LanguagesEngineeringPaleoceanographyLinguistic AnthropologyOceanographyLanguage VariationMorphology (Linguistics)Morphological PassiveGeophysicsWorld LanguagesWestern OceanicHistorical LinguisticsLanguage StudiesMarine GeologyMorphologyIndo-pacific LanguagesProto-oceanic PassiveArabic Dialect Morphological AnalysisBilingual PhonologyLanguage UseRomance LanguagesThough Morphological PassivesLinguistics
Though morphological passives are said to be rare in Oceanic languages, we report on such passives in Bola (Western Oceanic), spoken in Papua New Guinea, and Natügu (Temotu Oceanic), spoken in the Solomon Islands. These languages have passive morphemes that are cognate with Proto–Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) *-in- both in form and function, which leads us to conclude that a morphological passive should be reconstructed for Proto-Oceanic (POC).
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