Publications
Publication details [#23344]
Cook, Kenneth William. 1991. The Samoan cia suffix as an indicator of agent defocusing. Pragmatics 1 (2) : 145–167. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
An investigation into the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic functions of the cia suffix in Samoan. It is found that the use of the suffix has implications for notions of social remoteness.