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The quantifier hauin

Makalero

Juliette Huber

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East Timor

ACJSchapper


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Makalero


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Language profile

0 ~ 7,000 speakers

0 SOV, largely isolating

(a) Ani kiloo pase.

1s 3s beat

I hit him.

(b) Kiloo ani pase.

3s 1s beat

He hit me.


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The quantifier hauall

0 Most frequent quantifier

0 Often used in conjunction with haka,feluand others

(c) mata-niki haka-hau ete-naser

child-PL all-all upwards-stand.PL

all the children got up

(d) Ki-ni ki-upa felu-hau umu.

3:POSS-mother 3:POSS-father complete-all die

Both (all) of his parents are dead.


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Categorial status of hauall

0 Verbal

(e) Mata-niki-raa haka-hau ropesadu soot.

child-PL-PL all-all sweets want

All children like sweets.

(f) Kilooraa (hai) haka-hau (hai) ma'u.3p NSIT all-all NSIT come

They have all come already.


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Usage

0 Can modify the S/A argument

(g) Kilooraa hai haka-hau mau.

3p NSIT all-all come

They have all come.

(h) Mata-niki-raa haka-hau ropesadu soot.child-PL-PL all-all sweets want



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Usage

0 Can modify the O argument

(i) ei=ni (...) teli ere hau mei tefu-dasa...

2s=CTR maize 1DEM all take perpendicular-throw

it was you who () broke all the maize plants...


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Grammaticalisation

0 hauis grammaticalising into an aspect marker

(j) ... asi-upa hau taru=ni tepa Matebian-isi...

1s:POSS-father all place=LNK1 constant M.-at

... after (they) buried my father, (we) were at Mount

Matebian all the time...

(k) Karna pipi.rusa hau pere...

because deer all big.SG

Because the deer is very big...


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Constructions

(l) Ii hai felu-hau nua?

Ii [hai felu-hau][nua]?

2p NSIT all-all eatHave you all eaten already?

(m) Ii hai felu-hau nua?

Ii [hai [felu-hau] nua]?2p NSIT all-all eat

Have you eaten up everything already?


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Constructions

0 Evidence: position of O argument

(n) Mata-niki-raa haka-hau ropesadusoot.

Mata-niki-raa [haka-hau][ropesadu soot].child-PL-PL all-all sweets want


(o) kilooraa (...) ki-atumataraa hai haka-hau taru...kilooraa (...) [ki-atumataraa hai [haka-hau]taru]...

3p 3:POSS-intestines NSIT all-all place

they () buried all of its intestines...


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Constructions0 Evidence: verbs with singular/plural distinction

(p) Ki-mata hai hau pere.

Ki-mata [hai [hau]pere].*Ki-mata [hai hau] [pere].

3:POSS-child NSIT all big.SG

Her child is already very big.

(q) Ki-mata-r hai hau helar.

Ki-mata-r [hai hau][helar].

3:POSS-child-PL NSIT all big.PL

Her children have all grown up.


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and another one

0 In some instances, hauis constructed as a verbal

complement

(r) asi-upa ini hau-suri...

1s:POSS-father1pe all-release:BD

my father left us all behind...


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Summary hauas a

quantifier verb

0 hauis a floating quantifier

0 It can be constructed in two distinct ways, either as a V1 in

a serial verb construction, or as an adverbial within a

predication. In the serial verb construction, it is

understood to modify the S/A argument, and as an

adverbial, the O argument

0 Adverbial hauis being grammaticalised as an aspectmarker


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So?

0 Quantifier verbs are common in the Timor-Alor-Pantar

area

0 So are floating quantifiers

0 And grammaticalisation to completive

0 Hau is doubly floating: it is always outside of the NP it

modifies; can be constructed either as an S1 or an

adverbial, with distinct scopes associated.


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