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Vries, Lourens De. 1995. Demonstratives, referent identification and topicality in Wambon and some other Papuan languages. Journal of Pragmatics 24 (5) : 513–533.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper presents a 'two-domain hypothesis' which views the demonstrative forms in Wambon and Urim as fulfilling the two synchronically unrelated functions of referent identification and expression of topicality distinctions. To explain the formal similarities V. points to a diachronic development as in several Papuan languages topic markers developed from demonstrative operators.