Polynesian Syntax And Its Interfaces PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Polynesian Syntax And Its Interfaces PDF full book. Access full book title Polynesian Syntax And Its Interfaces.
Author | : Lauren Clemens |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0192604856 |
Download Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Lauren Clemens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Polynesian languages |
ISBN | : 9780191892905 |
Download Polynesian Syntax and Its Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Lauren Clemens |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-08-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198860838 |
Download Polynesian Syntax and Its Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family. Chapters offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, such as ergativity and case systems, negation, and the left periphery.
Author | : Anne Salmond |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110810360 |
Download A Generative Syntax of Luangiua Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Diane Massam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198793553 |
Download Niuean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case. Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics.
Author | : Fernando Zuniga |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1100 |
Release | : 2024-01-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110730952 |
Download Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).
Author | : Sandra Chung |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0292768540 |
Download Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify what counts as evidence in syntactic reconstruction and how syntactic reanalysis progresses. It therefore represents a first step toward a general theory of syntactic change. Chung first describes the basic syntax of the Polynesian languages, discussing Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Kapingamarangi, and Pukapukan in depth. She then presents an investigation of the grammatical relations of these languages and their relevance to syntax and shows that the syntax of all these languages—even those with ergative case marking—revolves around the familiar grammatical relations subject and direct object. Finally the book traces the historical development of the different case systems from their origins in Proto-Polynesian.
Author | : Viktor Krupa |
Publisher | : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download The Polynesian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Viktor Krupa |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2019-03-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110899280 |
Download Polynesian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
Author | : Yosuke Sato |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255385 |
Download Minimalist Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Empirically rich, analytically sophisticated, and theoretically necessary. A major step forward in minimalist theorizing." --