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9 September 2010

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16. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto Oceanic

Claire Moyse-Faurie, LACITO-CNRS, Paris
John Lynch, University of the South Pacific

1.Introduction

1.1 Typological preliminaries

1.2 Existing reconstructions

2. Nominal coordination

2.1 Tight and loose coordination

2.2 Common NPs vs proper NPs coordination

3. Verb phrase and clausal coordination

3.1 Phrasal (NP/VP) and clausal coordination marked differently

3.2 Phrasal and clausal coordination marked identically

3.3 Nominal coordination differs from verbal and clausal coordination

4. Numeral and end of lists coordination

5. Coordination and comitative

6. Adverbial functions of coordinators

7. Discussion

7.1 Towards a typology of Oceanic coordination

7.2 The coordinator-to-TAM-marker shift in Western Oceanic

7.3 Proto Oceanic Coordinators

8. Conclusion

In: Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), Coordinating Constructions. 2004. xcv, 578 pp. (pp. 445–497)