Protoform: A [OC] Personal article, used before proper names and personal pronouns: *(q)a(a)
| Description: | Personal article, used before proper names and personal pronouns: *(q)a(a) |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to OC: Oceanic |
| Notes: | *1 Cf. PN *a-te-.1 |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuta | A | Particle placed between a preposition and a personal pronoun or a proper name, but not before a common noun (i a, ki a) | (Fbg) |
| East Futuna | A | Marque de l'absolutif (obligatoir devant noms propre et noms commun au pluriel défini, facultatif devant pronoms postposés au verbe et noms communs au singulier ou au pluriel indéfini) | (Mfr) |
| East Uvea | A | Personal article after ki, i before personal name and some pronouns | (Rch) |
| Ifira-Mele | A- | Prefix to singular personal pronouns | (Clk) |
| Kapingamarangi | A | Personal article | (Lbr) |
| Lau | A | Personal article used with the names of males only | (Ivs) |
| Luangiua | A | Personal marker | (Smd) |
| Luangiua | ʔA | Personal article | (Smd) |
| Mangareva | A koe tena | C'est toi (salut) | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | I/a/ | Case marker before personal names and personal pronouns | (Bgs) |
| Marquesas | -a | Article: personal | (Mtu) |
| Moriori | A | Personal article | (Shd) |
| New Zealand Maori | A(a) | Proper article before personal and locative class bases standing as subject and before personal class bases following prepositions ki,i,kei,hei | (Bgs) |
| Niue | A | Personal article | (McE) |
| Nukuoro | A | Personal article | (Crl) |
| Penrhyn | A | Personal article | (Sta) |
| Pukapuka | I/a | Personal article | (Bge) |
| Raʔivavae | A | Particle of personification, occurring before the names of persons, of personalized or of named objects... | (Stn) |
| Rarotongan | A | Personal article | (Bse) |
| Rennellese | A | Personal subject marker (Elbert 1988:107) | (Ebt) |
| Rennellese | (I)/a/ | Object marker | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | I/aa/ | Particle which takes the place of /i/ before proper bases and pronouns | (Prt) |
| Sikaiana | A(a) | Personal article | (Dnr) |
| Tahitian | I/aa | Marque du complément (devant les pronoms et noms propres) | (Lmt) |
| Takuu | A | Name marker for singular personal pronouns and names of humans and spirits, but not canoes. | (Mle) |
| Tikopia | A | Personal article used before pronouns following ki, i | (Fth) |
| Tokelau | A | personal article, used before personal names after the prepositions i and ki | (Sma) |
| Tongan | ʔA | Introduces the postposed subject of an intransitive verb and the postposed object of a transitive verb (Churchward 1953:105) | (Cwd) |
| Tuamotu | A | Personal article | (Stn) |
| Tuvalu | A | Personal article | (Rby) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | A | Personal article... | (Hvn) |
| West Futuna | A | Personal article | (Dty) |
| West Uvea | A | Article marking animates. Special circumstances apply | (Hmn) |
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