Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages is a
collection of papers devoted to the syntactic analysis of modification
and extraction strategies in Austronesian languages such as Kavalan,
Malagasy, Niuean, Seediq, and Tagalog. Written by some of the leading
scholars in the field, it elucidates the categorial and phrase
structural status as well as the scopal behavior of sentence-level
adverbs, ordering constraints on adjectival modifiers, and the nature
of unbounded dependencies in interaction with Philippine-type voice
systems. Guglielmo Cinque's universal ordering hypothesis for adverbs
and current work on remnant movement serve as theoretical points of
reference. More particularly the book contains an analysis of lower
VP-adverbs in Kavalan as serial verbs (Chang), a defense of two types
of adverbial heads in Seediq (Holmer), an account of possible
DP-internal serializations in Niuean in terms of remnant movement
(Kahnemuyipour Massam), a plea for relative, scope-based adverb
ordering in Tagalog (Kaufman), a clefting approach to unbounded
dependencies in Malagasy (Potsdam), a critical assessment of
constraints on remnant movement as applied to adverb orderings in
Malagasy (Thiersch), and an analysis of the Malagasy voice system on
the basis of clitic left-dislocation (Travis). The editors'
introduction undertakes a critical survey of the relevant empirical
and theoretical background. A substantial part of the empirical facts
are presented here for the first time, and the book will inspire
additional systematic investigation of the often neglected aspects of
modificational strategies in Austronesian languages. The book will be
of value to linguists interested in contemporary syntactic analysis
and to everyone seeking a deeper understanding of the formal
properties of Austronesian.
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ISBN
9783110922974
Publisert
2015
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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