In:Finiteness and Nominalization
Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
[Typological Studies in Language 113] 2016
► pp. 71–82
Finiteness in Haruai
Bernard Comrie | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California Santa Barbara
Published online: 23 June 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.113.04com
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.113.04com
Haruai, a non-Austronesian (“Papuan”) language of Papua New Guinea distinguishes, in terms of the indexing of person-number in the verb, between finite, semi-finite, and non-finite verb forms. There is a high, though not absolute, correlation between this scale and the scale running from main clause to dependent clause.
Keywords: dependent clause, finiteness, Haruai, main clause, person-number, tense-mood
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