Austronesian and theoretical linguistics:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA)
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Beschreibung:"The papers presented within this volume were selected from the fourteenth meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XIV), held May 4-6, 2007 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrast; Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay; Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay; Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds; Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages; Syntax The case of possessors and 'subjects'; Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan
The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory. Any theory that postulates a grammar that is common to all languages must take into account the particular characteristics of this language family. The contributions to this volume comprise five chapters on phonology and twelve chapters on syntax, all addressing aspects of these Austronesian challeng
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ISBN:9027255504
9027287759
9789027255501
9789027287755

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