Ini apel ni nya ‘This here apple now’ Deictics in the Malay speech of Southwest Malukan migrants in the Netherlands1

Kasi and bikin Two causative strategies in Melayu Tenggara Jauh (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia)

“…One very salient exotic feature of MTJ for "outsiders" in Maluku and the Netherlands is the "stacking of deictics" in NPs 33 ( Van Engelenhoven 2008). It seems self evident to locate the origin of imitation in Luangic languages where it is very abundant.…”