| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics / Lauren Clemens, Diane Massam -- Gradability and modality: a case study from Samoan / Vera Hohaus -- Mapping meaning to argument structure: the case of Samoan case / James N. Collins -- Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan / Maria Polinsky, Eric Potsdam -- Syntactic ergativity as absolutive movement in Tongic Polynesian / Lauren Clemens, Rebecca Tollan -- Causative morphology as voice-driven allomorphy: the case of Samoan fa'a-causatives / Jens Hopperdietzel -- Reaffirming Māori negatives as verbs / Sandra Chung -- Hawaiian ai at the syntax-phonology interface / David J. Medeiros -- Apparent raising in Tongan and its implications for multiple case valuation / Yuko Otsuka -- Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles: components of the left periphery in Māori / Elizabeth Pearce -- Predicate-EPP in Niuean, Tongan, and beyond / Julianne Doner -- The lingering DP in Niuean / Diane Massam |
| Summary |
"This volume presents research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody within the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. It includes in-depth analyses of issues within particular languages, as well as chapters that take a comparative-Polynesian approach. Theoretical issues addressed include ergativity and case systems, word order variations, modality and superlatives, causativization, negation, resumption and linearization, raising, the Extended Projection Principle (EPP), and the left periphery of both the sentential and nominal domains. The volume showcases the theoretical typology of Polynesian languages with their varying case systems, word orders, and isolating particle-based morphology"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Polynesian languages -- Syntax
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Polynesian languages -- Semantics
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Polynesian languages -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clemens, Lauren, editor.
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Massam, Diane, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192604859 |
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0192604856 |
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