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

• Autore: Ntelitheos Dimitrios
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 499/.355
• Soggetto topico: Malagasy language - Grammar; Malagasy language - Nominals; Malagasy language - Syntax
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deriving nominals
• ISBN: 90-04-23372-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812925603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 3.