The linguistics of inhabiting space: Spatial reference in the north-east Ambae language 1

Oceania

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-42

  Hyslop, Catriona ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 22844453524     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1999.tb02987.x     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. This paper is based on a chapter of my PhD dissertation on North-East Ambae grammar. I am grateful to Lissant Bolton and Bill Palmer for comments on earlier drafts of the paper.
2. There is some variation in the terminology used to speak about spatial reference. Sec. for example, Levinson 1996.
3. Reflex of the reconstructed Proto Oceanic verb "mai come from (Ross 1988).
4. Reflex of the reconstructed Proto Eastern Oceanic postverbal directional particle "[wjatu away, hence. Proto Oceanic "[w.ujatu (Ross 1988).
5. While this would seem to be a curious variation in the division of absolute direction, this exact difference has also been observed in Tukang Besi, a Western Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia (Donohue 1995).