Edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis
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.… read more
This chapter investigates some implications of Spell-Out in a phase-based, realizational derivational system. It is argued that all operations on the PF branch within a phase, specifically Vocabulary Insertion and phonological rule, application are predicted to have isomorphic domains of… read more
Malagasy has two characteristics that are interesting for a study of nominalizations: (i) one expresses ‘the fact that x’ with a nominalized form of the verb used when an adjunct is extracted, (ii) non-derived nominals expressing notions such as ‘the idea’ or ‘the statement’ cannot take CP… read more
