… In this paper we discuss the role of animacy in the grammar of Teiwa and Abui, two Trans …
Teiwa has approximately 6,000 speakers on Pantar island, and Abui has approximately …

… In the encoding of Teiwa objects these semantic roles are not distinguished. Neither are
objects formally distinguished as direct/indirect or primary/secondary. Instead, the animacy …

… relations marking (namely animacy and volitionality) by looking … (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang,
and Abui), Papuan languages of … animacy and volitionality in Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui…

… We will see more evidence that the animacy value of its argument and the grammatical
context in which the verb appears determine its interpretation. In Teiwa, ma functions as a …

… We will see more evidence that the animacy value of its argument and the grammatical
context in which the verb appears determine its interpretation. In Teiwa, ma functions as a …

… This paper discusses the coding of arguments in Abui, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) … can
still be inferred from the difference in animacy between the two participants. All three semantic …

… This means that the role of animacy in Abui is very different from what we find in Teiwa (see
4.4 below), where the effect of animacy is seen in transitive verbs in which objects that are …

… Moreover, I examine more closely the relation between these manifestations of animacy and
… 2006 The role of animacy in Teiwa and Abui (Papuan). Proceedings of the annual meeting …

… speaker of Abui, Kratochvíl has worked on Abui since 2003. … We gratefully acknowledge the
hospitality of the Abui … The data presented in this paper comes from the Abui corpus (roughly …

… glottal stops are phonemic in Teiwa. However, the glottal stop is not marked in the orthography
of the language name because non-Teiwa speakers appear to systematically overlook …