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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463511803321

Autore

Ntelitheos Dimitrios

Titolo

Deriving nominals [[electronic resource] ] : a syntactic account of Malagasy nominalizations / / by Dimitrios Ntelitheos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

90-04-23372-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, , 2210-6243 ; ; 3

Disciplina

499/.355

Soggetti

Malagasy language - Grammar

Malagasy language - Nominals

Malagasy language - Syntax

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1. Building Morphosyntactic Structure -- 2. Malagasy Morphosyntax -- 3. Gerundive and Referential Nominals -- 4. Participant Nominals -- 5. Clausal Nominals -- 6. Participant Nominals and Relative Clauses -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed study of nominalizing patterns in Malagasy (Austronesian) and discusses the broader theoretical issues that arise from these patterns. It explores new and original fieldwork data drawn from the largely unexplored domain of Malagasy deverbal nominals. Offering new insights to long-standing puzzles in the derivation of argument-structure, referential, and clausal nominals, the book promotes a single structure-building mechanism, which allows nominalizers to attach at different heights in the clausal spine to derive nominals with different morphosyntactic properties. In addition, it provides a novel analysis of participant nominalizations, showing that they are derived through the same mechanism that derives relative clauses, and thus setting the stage for new and exciting research directions.