Abstract: In this paper certain properties of the Palauan verbal complex are examined, and an attempt is made to analyze them in terms of recent theoretical developments. Palauan is the official language of the Republic of Palau, a newly-formed independent nation of the western Pacific. Although it is a member of the Austronesian family, it is only distantly related to the languages spoken in nearby areas — the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Micronesia. It shares with other nuclear Micronesian languages a verbal affix which may be cognate with so-called Actor Topic markers in other languages: compare Palauan me- with Tagalog -um- and Indonesian meN- (cf. Wilson 1972, and references cited there). It is not the aim of this study to consider a diachronic analysis, however.1
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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