Abstract
Kambera is an Austronesian language of the Sumba-Biwa group of Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken by approximately 150,000 speakers on the eastern part of the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia. Klamer (1994) provides a detailed description of the language. This paper discusses one of the most salient constructions in Kambera: the continuative aspect construction. This construction is illustrated in (1).
I wish to thank the audience at AFLA 2, Tom Gúldemann and the anonymous referee for their comments and questions on the conference version of this paper. The revision of the paper was made possible by a fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Abbreviations
- A:
-
accusative
- APP:
-
applicative morpheme
- ART:
-
article (na - singular, da - plural)
- CLF:
-
classifier, CNJ - conjunction, CTR - marker of controlled clause
- D:
-
dative, DEI - deictic element (space/time)
- DEM:
-
demonstrative
- EMP:
-
emphasis marker
- G:
-
genitive
- IMPF:
-
imperfective
- LOC:
-
locative preposition
- MOD:
-
mood marker
- N:
-
nominative
- NEG:
-
negation
- PRF:
-
perfective
- RDP:
-
reduplication.
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Klamer, M. (2000). Continuative Aspect and the Dative Clitic in Kambera. In: Paul, I., Phillips, V., Travis, L. (eds) Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1580-5_3
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