What is it about?
This paper compares the forms of the personal pronouns in the seventeen Oceanic languages of northern Vanuatu. It reconstructs their detailed history since the Proto-Oceanic ancestor, language by language.
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Why is it important?
These 17 languages have never been described to this day, and many of them are doomed to disappear soon. Their personal pronouns are here presented and discussed for the first time. In addition, this paper provides a detailed application of the Comparative method well known in classical linguistics.
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This publication brings together valuable data collected during years of fieldwork.
Alex Francois
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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This page is a summary of: The historical morphology of personal pronouns in northern Vanuatu, Faits de langues, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/19589514-047-01-900000003.
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