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Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory. Any theory that postulates a grammar that is common to all languages must take into account the particular characteristics of this language family. The contributions to this volume comprise five chapters on phonology and twelve chapters on syntax, all addressing aspects of these Austronesian challenges. The volume presents new data, new analyses of old data, and comparisons of closely related languages, as well as comparisons to languages outside of the language family. Taken together they form a unique picture of Austronesian linguistics. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language typology, as well as scholars of Austronesian languages.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 December 2010
Published online on 10 December 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- Introduction | pp. 1–6
- Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology
- The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrastMarc Brunelle | pp. 7–24
- Reduplication in Tanjung Raden MalayYanti and Eric Raimy | pp. 25–44
- Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of MalayJustin Nuger | pp. 45–64
- Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compoundsKatrina Schack Tang | pp. 65–80
- Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languagesMara Frascarelli | pp. 81–102
- Syntax
- The case of possessors and ‘subjects’Cathryn Donohue and Mark Donohue | pp. 103–116
- Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in TonganYuko Otsuka | pp. 117–140
- Possession syntax in Unua DPsElizabeth Pearce | pp. 141–162
- Seediq adverbial verbs: A review of the evidenceArthur Holmer | pp. 163–182
- On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructionsHenry Y. Chang | pp. 183–212
- Specification and inversion: Evidence from MalagasyIleana Paul | pp. 213–230
- VSO word order in Malagasy imperativesEric Potsdam | pp. 231–248
- A unified analysis of Niuean AkiDouglas Ball | pp. 249–270
- Deriving inverse order: The issue of argumentsDiane Massam | pp. 271–296
- The impersonal construction in TagalogPaul Law | pp. 297–326
- Anaphora in traditional Jambi MalayPeter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and Yanti | pp. 327–344
- On parameters of agreement in Austronesian languagesMark C. Baker | pp. 345–374
- Index | pp. 375–379
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