Jarai clauses and noun phrases : syntactic structures in an Austronesian language / Joshua Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Joshua, author.

Series:

Pacific linguistics ; 645.

Pacific linguistics, 1448-8310 ; volume 645

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jarai language--Syntax.

Jarai language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014].

Summary:

The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial verb constructions. Phenomena are carefully described, then analyzed within the Minimalist framework. The Series: Pacific Linguistics, The series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases, bibliographies and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia, as well as language learning materials in the region's major lingua francas. It is the most authoritative publisher of works on the languages of the Pacific and neighbouring areas, read by scholars with an interest in the region as well as by linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Jarai language 1

1.1 Linguistic affiliation 2

1.2 Linguistic research on Jarai and jarai texts 4

1.3 The literature and my research 6

1.4 Data: methodology and population 6

1.5 Jarai phonology and orthography 8

1.5.1 Inventory of phonemes 8

1.5.2 Orthography 12

1.5.3 Word-level stress 13

1.5.4 Data citation practices 14

1.6 Overview of Jarai morphology and syntax 14

1.6.1 Affixal morphology 14

1.6.2 Pronominal system 17

1.6.3 Syntax 17

1.7 Overview of following chapters 19

1.7.1 The noun phrase 19

1.7.2 The clause 20

1.8 Theoretical approach 21

2 Noun phrases 22

2.1 Some background assumptions 22

2.2 Demonstratives 23

2.3 Numerals, classifiers, and number marking 29

2.3.1 Overview of numerals and classifiers 30

2.3.2 Phrase structure 33

2.3.3 Jarai nouns and reference to kinds 40

2.4 Possessor DPs 44

2.5 Adjective phrases 50

2.6 Interim summary: the DP so far 54

2.7 Quantifiers and partitives 55

2.7.1 Cardinal quantifiers 56

2.7.2 Proportional quantifiers 61

2.8 DP wrap-up 66

3 Operator domain 68

3.1 Projections in the operator domain 68

3.1.1 Finite complement clauses 68

3.1.2 Non-finite complement clauses 77

3.1.3 Interrogative clauses 92

3.2 Focus movement 106

3.3 Pseudocleft wh-questions 415

3.3.1 In questions with po the remainder is a DP 118

3.3.2 Questions containing po are copular 125

3.3.3 The structure of pseudocleft questions 127

4 Inflectional domain 137

4.1 Inflectional elements 137

4.2 Ordering and phrase structural position 138

4.3 Excursus: (missing) tense and aspect 143

4.3.1 lajh 'already' 143

4.3.2 hi?, telicity particle 148

4.4 Subject position 153

5 Theta domain 156

5.1 Splitting up the verb: V and v 156

5.2 Unaccusatives 165

5.3 Verb phrase-internal subjects 168

5.4 Another split: inner aspect 171

5.5 Asymmetries below the verb 174

5.5.1 Direct object-indirect object asymmetry 174

5.5.2 Goal-source asymmetry 179

5.6 Serial verb constructions 184

5.6.1 Definition and common properties 485

5.6.2 Theoretical approaches to SVCs 186

5.6.3 Serial verbs in Jarat 192

6 Conclusion 218

6.1 Overview 218

6.2 Prospects 219.

Notes:

Revised version of author's 2013 Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.

ISBN:

1614517711

9781614517719

OCLC:

885225980

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