| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 3 |
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Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 3.
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| Contents |
Editorial Forword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One Building Morphosyntactic Structure; 1.1 A Single Structure-Building Mechanism; 1.1.1 Lexicalism: Syntactic Atoms are Words; 1.1.2 Morphosyntax: It's LEGO Bricks All the Way Down; 1.1.3 Structure Building Operations; 1.1.4 Linearization and Phases; 1.1.5 Selection; 1.1.6 Cartography; 1.1.7 Intermediate Summary; 1.2 Nominalizations; 1.2.1 A Historical Perspective; 1.2.2 Current Approaches; 1.2.3 The VP within Nominalizations; 1.2.4 Variation in Attachment Height; 1.3 Proposals and Outline |
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Chapter Two Malagasy Morphosyntax2.1 Malagasy Clausal Structure; 2.2 A Cartography of Verbal and Nominal Domains in Malagasy; 2.2.1 The Verbal Domain; 2.2.2 Voice; 2.2.3 Tense; 2.3 The Nominal Domain; 2.4 Linking; 2.5 Deriving VOS and Extraction Patterns; Chapter Three Gerundive and Referential Nominals; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 The Basic Design; 3.2 Malagasy Nominalizers; 3.3 Gerundive Nominals in Malagasy; 3.3.1 Nominal and Verbal Properties of Malagasy Gerundive Nominals; 3.3.2 A Syntactic Model for Malagasy Gerundive Nominals; 3.4 Referential Nominals |
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3.4.1 Referential Nominals Built on the CT Form of the Verb3.4.2 Referential Nominals Built on the AT Form of the Verb; 3.5 Revisiting Variation in Merger Height; Chapter Four Participant Nominals; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Instrumental Nominals; 4.1.1 Instrumental Nominals Built on the AT Form of the Verb; 4.1.2 Instrumental Nominals Built on the CT Form of the Verb; 4.1.3 Two Syntactic Positions for Instruments; 4.2 Agentive Nominals; 4.2.1 On the Agentive Nominalizer mp- and its Relation to f-; 4.2.2 The Morphosyntactic Distribution of Agentive Nominals |
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4.3 A Quick Look at Manner and Locative Nominals4.4 A Gap in the Paradigm; Chapter Five Clausal Nominals; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Headless Relative Clauses; 5.1.1 Headless Relative Clauses as Determiner-Predicate Strings; 5.1.2 Headless Relative Clauses Have a Null 'Head'; 5.1.3 Presence of an A'-Chain in Malagasy Headless Relative Clauses; 5.1.4 Distribution and Structure of Malagasy Headless Relative Clauses; 5.1.5 Other Types of Headless Relative Clauses; 5.2 Action Nominals; 5.2.1 Control Verb Complements and the Status of ny; 5.2.2 Clausal Nominals and Finiteness |
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5.2.3 The Licensing of TriggersChapter Six Participant Nominals and Relative Clauses; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 On the Relative Clause Character of Participant Nominalizations; 6.1.1 Reduced Structures; 6.1.2 Nominalizations and Voice Morphology in Austronesian; 6.1.3 Evidence from Binding; 6.1.4 Evidence from Modifier Interpretation; 6.2 Typological Observations; 6.2.1 Participant Nominals as Full or Reduced Headless Relative Clauses; 6.2.2 Revisiting Attachment Height; 6.2.3 On the Nature of Nominalizers/Relativizers; 6.3 Division of Labour between Lexicon and Syntax |
| Summary |
This book provides original fieldwork data, uniquely generating all Malagasy deverbal nominals from a single structure-building mechanism, allowing variable syntactic attachment heights for different nominalizers and tracing the derivation of participant nominals to a relative clause source |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Malagasy language -- Grammar
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Malagasy language -- Nominals
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Malagasy language -- Syntax
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
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Malagasy language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012021339 |
| ISBN |
9789004233720 |
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9004233725 |
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