**國立清華大學語言所九十七學年專題演講六**
『清大語言所暨中研院語言所』 南島語學程系列演講之六
演講者: Professor Malcolm Ross (The Australian National University)
演講題目: The typology and history of possession constructions in Oceanic
Austronesian languages
時間: 2008.12.3 (星期三) 中午12:30
地點: 語言所研討室(B305室)
演講綱要:
The semantics and morphosyntactic organisation of possession in many
Oceanic Austronesian languages are unusual. These languages not only
distinguish alienable possession from inalienable possession, a
distinction which is common in the world's languages. They also
distinguish varying alienable possessive relationships. These
different possessive relationships are expressed by classifier
morphemes. The number of relationships that a language distinguishes
ranges from two to twenty or more. This feature is not common in the
world's languages, and I discuss why this should be the case.
Wherever a language exhibits an unusual typological feature, it
invites the diachronic question, How did this feature come into being
in this language? I attempt an answer to the question, How did
alienable possession classifiers arise in Oceanic languages? I also
examine what has tended to happen to them since they came into being.
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