Differential Object Marking in Proto-Austronesian
Channel: Southeast Asian Language Conferences at UH Manoa
Date: 08/06/2022

Presenter: Edith Aldridge

This presentation proposes an analysis of differential object marking in Proto-Austronesian whereby personal names and pronouns in object position were marked with the locative preposition *ki (building on Blust 2015). In contrast, common noun objects were marked by a dental obstruent *C-, reconstructed by Ross (2006).