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Unmarked transitive verbs in Melanesian Pidgin

✍ Scribed by Lynch J.

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In: Kenneth A. McElhanon and Ger Reesink, A Mosaic of languages and cultures: studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin, 227-
245. SIL e-Books, 19.

Dallas: SIL International
Although all four major varieties of Melanesian Pidgin mark transitivity by a verbal suffix
of the form -Vm , there is a small group of verbs in each of them which are unmarked
when used transitively—more in Bislama and Broken than in Tok Pisin and Pijin. I will
show that there are different kinds of explanations for different cases of zero-marking
involving the origin, function, or form of the verb.

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Языки и языкознание;Контактные языки;Пиджин Соломоновых островов

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