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Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces Lauren Clemens (Editor) Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Lauren Clemens (editor), Diane Massam (editor)

ISBN(s): 9780198860839, 0198860838

File Details: PDF, 4.12 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-34830122 Categories: dictionaries & phrasebooks, Languages - Grammar Tags: Diane Massam, its Interfaces, Lauren Clemens, Polynesian Syntax

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Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198860839,0198860838

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ISBN 10:0198860838
ISBN 13: 9780198860839
Author: Lauren Clemens

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, 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. They examine key topics including: word order variation, ergativity and case systems, causativization, negation, raising, modality and superlatives, and the left periphery of both the sentential and nominal domains. The findings not only shed light on the theoretical typology of Polynesian languages, but also have implications for linguistic theory as a whole.

Table 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. Medeiros
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

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