9 “Now the story’s turning around”: Associated motion and directionality in Ende, a language of Papua New Guinea

Reed, Lauren W.; Lindsey, Kate L.

doi:10.1515/9783110692099-009

Associated Motion 2021

DOI: 10.1515/9783110692099-009

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9 “Now the story’s turning around”: Associated motion and directionality in Ende, a language of Papua New Guinea

Lauren W. Reed¹,

Kate L. Lindsey²

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Verbal number in Idi

Schokkin

2022

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This paper provides a first description of verbal number in Idi, a language of the Pahoturi River family spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Idi shows an intricate system of marking verbal number, evident in verb stems and two sets of suffixes occurring in different positions on the verb, based on a distinction between nonplural (1 or 2) versus plural (more than 2). Verbs also agree in person and number with core arguments; this system of nominal number is distinguishing singular (1) from nonsingular (more than 1). Elements from the two systems are combined to arrive at composite number values for both events and participants. In addition, verbal number interrelates with a lexical aspectual distinction of punctual/telic versus durative/atelic, manifesting on verb stems and in inflectional patterns. The paper provides evidence for the thesis that verbal number in Idi is not merely lexically determined, but largely inflectional.

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Verbal number in Idi

Schokkin

2022

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The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles

Lindsey

Schokkin

2022

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This profile of the Pahoturi River language family of southern Papua New Guinea draws from extensive fieldwork on Idi [ISO 639-3: idi] and Ende [kit] – two of six varieties comprising this family – and brief surveying of the other four, which we illustrate in print for the first time. We present the first typological treatment of Pahoturi River in pursuit of shining more light on this understudied corner of the linguistic landscape. This profile is organized into two parts: first, we present sections on the basic structures and systems of Pahoturi River, illustrated with examples from across the family and supplemented with descriptions of Idi and Ende as relevant. From our preliminary data on the four other varieties, we gather that they are similar to Idi and Ende in many respects, but more investigation is warranted. Second, we provide an in-depth treatment of the verbal complex of Idi and Ende. We highlight two intriguing aspects of these complex systems – analytic constructions and ditransitive indexing – that distinguish the Pahoturi River family and the linguistic region of southern New Guinea.

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9 “Now the story’s turning around”: Associated motion and directionality in Ende, a language of Papua New Guinea

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Verbal number in Idi

Verbal number in Idi

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