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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mercado, Raphael.

Potsdam, Eric, 1964-

Travis, Lisa deMena.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 167.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA) ; Bd. 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austronesian languages--Congresses.

Austronesian languages.

Austronesian languages--Phonology.

Physical Description:

vi, 379 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay

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

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

Appendix: Javanese compounds

Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages

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

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

Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan

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

Possession syntax in Unua DPs

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

Seediq adverbial verbs

2. Adverbs as verbs

3. Two analyses of the data

3.1 Predication analysis

3.2 Adverbial heads

4. Summary and conclusion

On the syntax of Formosan adverbial verb constructions

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

Specification and inversion

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

Appendix: Examples from newspaper articles (Jedele and Randrianarivelo 1998)

VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives

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

A unified analysis of Niuean Aki

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

Deriving inverse order

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

The impersonal construction in Tagalog

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

Anaphora in traditional Jambi Malay

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

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

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612976957

9781282976955

1282976958

9789027287755

9027287759

OCLC:

697616402