The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)

The present paper attempts to account for the evolution of Western Austronesian focus constructions by showing that they evolved as a result of the reinterpretation of nominalized equational constructions by analogy with functionally equivalent verbal constructions, i.e., *-en, *ni-/-in-, *-ana, *iSi-, and possibly *mu-/-umwere all noun-deriving affixes in PAN that their verbal focus usages in the Formosan and Philippine languages represent a secondary development.

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