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Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics

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Editors:
  1. Ileana Paul

    1. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Vivianne Phillips

    1. Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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  3. Lisa Travis

    1. Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 49)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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