Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Structure of Inflection in Palauan

   • Mark Campana

   Pages 1-25

3. Morphology is Structure: A Malagasy Test Case

   • Edward L. Keenan

   Pages 27-47

4. Continuative Aspect and the Dative Clitic in Kambera

   • Marian Klamer

   Pages 49-63

5. Malagasy Existentials: A Syntactic Account of Specificity

   • Ileana Paul

   Pages 65-83

6. The Interaction between Prefix and Root: The Case of Maha- in Malagasy

   • Vivianne Phillips

   Pages 85-104

7. Another Look at Tagalog Subjects

   • Norvin Richards

   Pages 105-116

8. Raising and the Order of Clausal Constituents in the Philippine Languages

   • Peter Sells

   Pages 117-143

9. The Topic and Y Indefinite in Cebuano

   • Emily Sityar

   Pages 145-165

10. The L-Syntax/S-Syntax Boundary: Evidence from Austronesian

    • Lisa Travis

    Pages 167-194

11. Indonesian Voice and A-Bar Movement

    • Jan E. Voskuil

    Pages 195-213

12. Object Agreement in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy and Optimality

    • Ellen Woolford

    Pages 215-245

13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-265

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Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass some of these traditional questions and place them in newer theoretical contexts. Some of the papers also address new issues which add to our understanding of members of this language family on one side and the nature of linguistic theories on the other. There are three broad issues that re-occur throughout the volume - the role and analysis of verbal morphology, the nature of the subject or the topic in these languages, and the interaction of syntax and specificity. The papers in this volume show that as formal theories become more precise, a wider range of language data can be captured, and as the inventory of language data grows, the accuracy of formal linguistic theories improves.

• Index
• Syntax
• aspect
• language
• morphology
• subject
• syntactic
• austronesian languages

• Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Ileana Paul

• Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

  Vivianne Phillips, Lisa Travis

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