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The quantifier hauin
Makalero
Juliette Huber
Lund [email protected]
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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
All children like sweets.
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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
All children like sweets.
(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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