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      An account of possession in Larevet

      Barbour, Julie Renee
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      Barbour, J. R. (2016). An account of possession in Larevet. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, 34(1), 139–163.
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      This paper presents a first analysis of the Larevet language of central Malakula, Vanuatu, focusing on its possessive system. I locate the analysis within the literature on possession in the Oceanic language family broadly, seeking to understand how the synchronic system re- lates to both typological understandings within the family, and the possessive system recon- structed for Proto Oceanic. Drawing on a corpus of communicative and elicited language as evidence, I demonstrate that Larevet displays many features of a canonical Oceanic language, and that where changes have occurred, these align well with observations of possession in related languages of Malakula.
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      2016
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