Polynesian syntax and its interfaces / edited by Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clemens, Lauren.

Contributor:

Clemens, Lauren, editor.

Massam, Diane, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polynesian languages--Syntax.

Polynesian languages.

Polynesian languages--Semantics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Maori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, and in recent years, data from Polynesian languages has also contributed to advances in the fields of prosody and semantics, as well as to the study of parametric variation. The chapters in this volume offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues at the syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interfaces, both within individual languages and from a comparative Polynesian perspective.

Contents:

1. Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics / Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam

2. Gradability and modality : a case study from Samoan / Vera Hohaus

3. Mapping meaning to argument structure : the case of Samoan case / James N. Collins

4. Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan / Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam

5. Syntactic ergativity as absolutive movement in Tongic Polynesian / Lauren Clemens and Rebecca Tollan

6. Causative morphology as voice-driven allomorphy: The case of Samoan fa'a causatives / Jens Hopperdietzel

7. Reaffirming Māori negatives as verbs / Sandra Chung

8. Hawaiian ai at the syntax-phonology interface / David J. Madeiros

9. Apparent raising in Tongan and its implications for multiple case valuation / Yuko Otsuka

10. Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles : components of the left periphery in Māori / Elizabeth Pearce

11. Predicate-EPP in Niuean, Tongan, and beyond / Julianne Doner

12. The lingering DP in Niuean / Diane Massam.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-189290-4

0-19-260485-6