• DOI:10.1515/lity.2005.9.1.115
Corpus ID: 55878308

A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu

@inproceedings{Franois2005ATO,
  title={A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu},
  author={A. François},
  year={2005}
}

• A. François
• Published 2005
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Abstract The typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu. After a short presentation of its phonology, its main morphosyntactic categories are described and explored from a functional angle. The construal of noun phrases reveals a cognitive asymmetry between human individuals and other referents. Nouns, just like verbs or adjectives, are predicative, and are even sensitive to tense-aspect-mood markers… Expand

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