New Zealand: Interrupted Transmission And Rule Loss In Maori: The Case Of ka

New Zealand: Interrupted Transmission And Rule Loss In Maori: The Case Of ka Ray Harlow, Winifred Bauer, Margaret Maclagan, Catherine Watson, Peter Keegan, and Jeanette King, 2011   The Maori tense/aspect marker ka has historically two allomorphs: one, /ka:/, which is used when the rest of the verb phrase consists of only two morae, and the other, /ka/, for longer phrases. Recordings of native speakers born toward the end of the nineteenth century show that this distribution was at that...

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