Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics

Editors

Raphael Mercado | McGill University

Eric Potsdam | University of Florida

Lisa deMena Travis | McGill University

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.167

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 contrast

Marc Brunelle | pp. 7–24

Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay

Yanti and Eric Raimy | pp. 25–44

Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay

Justin Nuger | pp. 45–64

Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds

Katrina Schack Tang | pp. 65–80

Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages

Mara 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 Tongan

Yuko Otsuka | pp. 117–140

Possession syntax in Unua DPs

Elizabeth Pearce | pp. 141–162

Seediq adverbial verbs: A review of the evidence

Arthur Holmer | pp. 163–182

On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructions

Henry Y. Chang | pp. 183–212

Specification and inversion: Evidence from Malagasy

Ileana Paul | pp. 213–230

VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives

Eric Potsdam | pp. 231–248

A unified analysis of Niuean Aki

Douglas Ball | pp. 249–270

Deriving inverse order: The issue of arguments

Diane Massam | pp. 271–296

The impersonal construction in Tagalog

Paul Law | pp. 297–326

Anaphora in traditional Jambi Malay

Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and Yanti | pp. 327–344

On parameters of agreement in Austronesian languages

Mark C. Baker | pp. 345–374

Index | pp. 375–380

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