Austronesian and theoretical linguistics / / edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam, Lisa deMena Travis

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 379 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 499/.2
• Soggetto topico: Austronesian languages; Austronesian languages - Phonology
• Altri autori: MercadoRaphael PotsdamEric <1964-> TravisLisa deMena
• Note generali: "The papers presented within this volume were selected from the fourteenth meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XIV), held May 4-6, 2007 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The papers -- Themes -- New data and new analyses -- Language variation and language change -- Theories and theoretical constructs -- Looking inward and outward -- References -- Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrast -- 1. Previous phonetic studies of the tense ~ lax contrast -- 1.1 Acoustic properties -- 1.2 Possible articulatory mechanisms -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 The video -- 2.2 Measurements made on the video -- 2.3 Data processing -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reduplication in other Malay dialects -- 3. Reduplication types in Tanjung Raden Malay -- 3.1 Full reduplication -- 3.2 Full reduplication with glottal stop -- 3.3 Full reduplication without final consonant -- 3.4 CV reduplication -- 3.5 C[a] reduplication -- 3.6 C[6] reduplication -- 3.7 CV[ ] reduplication -- 3.8 C[a ] reduplication -- 3.9 C[6 ] reduplication -- 4. Precedence based phonology -- 4.1 Full reduplication -- 4.2 Full reduplication without final consonant -- 4.3 CV reduplication -- 4.4 Full reduplication with glottal stop -- 4.5 CV[ ] reduplication -- 4.6 C[a] reduplication -- 4.7 Remaining reduplication patterns -- 5. Language acquisition and change -- 5.1 Full reduplication without final consonant -- 5.2 C[a] reduplication -- 5.3 Full reduplication with glottal stop -- 5.4 Combinations of innovations -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ulu Muar Malay reduplication -- 2.1 Maximal syllable reduplicants -- 2.2 "Anchoring" the edges -- 3. Previous analyses and theoretical implications. ; 3.1 Kroeger 1989: Pre-OT -- 3.2 Recent work in OT -- 3.3 Treatment of vowel-final stems: Evidence for prosodic correspondence -- 4. In conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Featural mismatches -- Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds -- 1. Javanese compounds -- 1.1 Data -- 1.2 Outline of paper -- 2. Phonology and compounds -- 2.1 The [a]/[f] alternation in Javanese -- 2.2 No [a]/[f] alternation in nominal compounds -- 2.3 Phrasal phonology -- 2.4 Extent of the phenomenon -- 2.5 Non-phonological diagnostics for compounds -- 3. Phonology in the syntax -- 3.1 Derivation of compounds -- 3.2 Adjective phrases and non-compound nouns -- 3.3 Problems with phonological approaches -- 3.4 Local summary -- 4. Remaining puzzles -- 4.1 Compounds with phrasal phonology -- 4.2 Reduplication -- 4.3 Beyond compounds -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Javanese compounds -- Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The interface realization of focus -- 2.1 Broad focus sentences in Tagalog -- 2.2 Broad focus sentences in Malagasy -- 2.3 Preliminary conclusions -- 3. Interface properties of narrow focus constructions -- 3.1 In situ focus -- 3.2 'Clefted' focus -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Syntax The case of possessors and 'subjects' -- 1. Case syncretisms: Subject = Possessor? -- 2. Previous analyses -- 3. Synthesis of the syncretism patterns -- 4. Explaining the full range of syncretisms -- Semantic form -- Abstract case -- Morphosyntactic case -- 5. Summary -- References -- Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The GRC in Polynesian -- 3. The GRC in Tongan -- 4. Agentless transitive constructions -- 5. Analysis of the Tongan GRC -- 5.1 The GRC and the agentless transitive -- 5.2 The nature of the null agent in the GRC. ; 5.3 The position of the genitive in GRCs -- 5.4 The mechanism of coreference -- 6. Comparison with Herd et al. (2004) -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Possession syntax in Unua DPs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms of possession in Unua -- 2.1 Possession/association classes -- 2.2 Direct versus Indirect possession -- 2.3. The inalienable specification -- 3. DPN/IPN syntax -- 3.1 Possessor role syntax -- 3.2 DP-internal syntax in Unua -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Seediq adverbial verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adverbs as verbs -- 3. Two analyses of the data -- 3.1 Predication analysis -- 3.2 Adverbial heads -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic relationships -- 2.1 Previous analyses -- 2.2 Our analysis -- 3. Syntactic operations -- 3.1 Previous analyses: The SVC analysis -- 3.2 Problems with the SVC analysis -- 4. Syntactic status of adverb ial verbs -- 4.1 Previous analyses -- 4.2 Problems with the previous analyses -- 4.3 An alternative analysis: Adverbial verbs as an in-between category -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Abbreviations -- References -- Specification and inversion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic facts about Malagasy -- 2.1 Nominal predicates -- 2.2 Definite nominal predicates -- 3. The dia construction -- 4. Specification vs. predication -- 4.1 Specification -- 4.2 Predication -- 5. Structure -- 5.1 Post-dia XP ≠ subject -- 5.2 Dia ≠ 'be' -- 6. Analysis 1 -- 6.1 Basic nominal predicates -- 6.2 Specificational sentences -- 7. Analysis 2 -- 8. Why topicalization? -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Examples from newspaper articles (Jedele and Randrianarivelo 1998) -- VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deriving VSO word order -- 2.1 Rightward scrambling -- 2.2 Predicate-internal subject. ; 2.3 Intermediate summary -- 3. A vocative analysis -- 3.1 Morphology -- 3.2 Semantics -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- A unified analysis of Niuean Aki -- 1. Introduction -- 2. More on the two Aki constructions -- 2.1 Prepositional Aki -- 2.2 Applicative Aki -- 3. An HPSG analysis: Part 1 -- 3.1 The basic lexical entry for Aki -- 3.2 Allowing for the different frames -- 4. Long-distance dependencies (LDDs) with Aki -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 An HPSG analysis: Part 2 -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Deriving inverse order -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic sentential word order in Niuean -- 3. Verbal particles and adverbials in Niuean -- 3.1 The adverbials described -- 3.2 Analyzing the adverbials -- 4. Placing arguments -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The impersonal construction in Tagalog -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relative clauses and the distribution of NPs -- 2.1 The forms of the RC -- 2.2 Argument-marking and word-order in the RC -- 2.3 Non-contiguous RCs and stacked RCs -- 2.4 RCs and the distribution of NPs -- 3. Some morphosyntactic properties of the existential and the possessive constructions -- 3.1 Multiple occurrence and extraction of adverbials -- 3.2 Three properties specific to the EC and the PC -- 4. The syntactic structure of the impersonal construction -- 4.1 Interpretation and pluralization -- 4.2 Argument-marking and word-order -- 4.3 Multiple occurrence of adverbials and long-distance construal of adverbials -- 4.4 Extraction -- 4.5 Non-contiguous and stacked RCs -- 4.6 Three properties of the EC and the PC -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Anaphora in traditional Jambi Malay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Village Jambi Malay -- 3. Anaphora in traditional Jambi Malay -- 4. The absence of dedicated reflexives in other Austronesian languages -- 5. Non-reflexive uses of intensifiers and emphatics in traditional Jambi Malay. ; 5.1 Uses of Dewe (-la) as a general exclusivity marker or intensifier in TR and MD -- 5.2 Other potential dedicated reflexives -- 6. The universality of Binding -- References -- On parameters of agreement in Austronesian languages -- 1. Two agreement parameters -- 2. The Bantu parameter settings in Austronesian: Fijian -- 2.1 The direction of agreement parameter -- 2.2 The case dependence of agreement parameter -- 3. Challenge of Tukang Besi -- 3.1 The direction of agreement parameter -- 3.2 The case dependence of agreement parameter -- 4. An extension to Kapampangan -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
• Sommario/riassunto: Baker 2008 claims that two parameters account for observed crosslinguistic variation in the syntax of agreement. One concerns the direction of agreement: whether or not an agreed-with NP must c-command the agreeing head. The other concerns the relationship of agreement to case: whether or not a head can agree with something it does not share a case feature with. In this article, I consider how these two parameters apply to Austronesian languages, concentrating on three representative case studies: Fijian, Tukang Besi, and Kapampangan. All three languages require upward agreement, but agreement is case-dependent only in Kapampangan. The agreement parameters also interact with certain differences in clause structure and movement, giving somewhat different agreement patterns in different languages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Austronesian and theoretical linguistics
• ISBN: 1-282-97695-8; 9786612976957; 90-272-8775-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816809503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 167.