Niuean: predicates and arguments in an isolating language
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a 2.3.2.3 The vP structure of fai existential predicates -- 2.3.2.4 The vP structure of locative predicates -- 2.3.2.5 The common vP structure of all predicates -- 2.3.2.6 Motivation for predicate fronting -- 2.3.3 'V' is VP -- 2.4 Inside the predicate -- 2.4.1 Overview of Niuean complex predicates -- 2.4.2 The proposal: VP, vP, and pre-v -- 2.4.3 Deriving inversion: General issues -- 2.5 The predicate formatives -- 2.5.1 Restructuring pre-verbs -- 2.5.2 Compounding modifiers -- 2.5.2.1 Augmentative compounds -- 2.5.2.2 Resultative compounds -- 2.5.2.3 Depictive compounds -- 2.5.3 Inverting modifiers -- 2.5.3.1 Low modifiers -- 2.5.3.2 Directional modifiers -- 2.5.3.3 High modifiers -- 2.5.4 Inverting heads: aki, Voice, oti, and ai -- 2.5.4.1 Instrumental aki -- 2.5.4.2 Voice -- 2.5.4.3 Exhaustive oti -- 2.5.4.4 Situational ai -- 2.5.5 Inverting high aspect: high, emphatic, and perfect -- 2.5.5.1 High aspectual modifiers -- 2.5.5.2 High emphatic modifiers -- 2.5.5.3 The perfect -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.5.6 The affixes -- 2.5.6.1 The prefixes faka- and ma- -- 2.5.6.2 Reduplication -- 2.5.7 Summing up: Sub-domains of the predicate -- 2.6 Serial verb constructions in Niuean -- 2.7 Solving the argument extraction problem: HiAM -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3: The arguments: High argument merge -- 3.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 3.2 Overview of HiAM -- 3.3 Catalogue of Niuean arguments -- 3.4 Internal roles: High and low -- 3.4.1 Four types of direct objects -- 3.4.2 Two object positions -- 3.4.2.1 Low objects -- 3.4.2.2 Relating high and low objects -- 3.4.2.3 High objects -- 3.4.2.4 Internal arguments of existential fai -- 3.5 The external agent role: High, low, lower, and not there -- 3.5.1 High and low ergative agents -- 3.5.2 Even lower: Implicit and non-existent agents -- 3.5.3 Summary of internal and external arguments -- 3.6 Sentences with no arguments -- 3.7 Applied arguments -- 3.7.1 Instrumental applicatives -- 3.7.2 Causativization and aki -- | |
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| contents | Cover -- Niuean: Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossing and Technical Abbreviations -- Abbreviated Data Sources -- 1: Introduction: Fakaalofa lahi atu -- 1.1 Niue and the Niue language -- 1.2 Overview of Niuean -- 1.3 Methodological issues -- 1.4 Key theoretical concepts -- 1.5 Overview of the volume -- 1.6 Some personal comments -- 2: The structure of the predicate and its place in the sentence -- 2.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 2.2 Where is the V in VSO? -- 2.2.1 The merge position: Head of VP -- 2.2.2 The derived position: Low CP (Fin) -- 2.2.2.1 The position of tense -- 2.2.2.2 The predicate moves to Fin -- 2.2.2.3 The predicate does not move higher than Fin -- 2.3 Predicates are phrasal -- 2.3.1 Heavy predicates -- 2.3.2 All predicates are vPs: High categorization -- 2.3.2.1 The vP structure of ko-phrase predicates -- 2.3.2.2 The vP structure of verbal and PNI predicates -- 2.3.2.3 The vP structure of fai existential predicates -- 2.3.2.4 The vP structure of locative predicates -- 2.3.2.5 The common vP structure of all predicates -- 2.3.2.6 Motivation for predicate fronting -- 2.3.3 'V' is VP -- 2.4 Inside the predicate -- 2.4.1 Overview of Niuean complex predicates -- 2.4.2 The proposal: VP, vP, and pre-v -- 2.4.3 Deriving inversion: General issues -- 2.5 The predicate formatives -- 2.5.1 Restructuring pre-verbs -- 2.5.2 Compounding modifiers -- 2.5.2.1 Augmentative compounds -- 2.5.2.2 Resultative compounds -- 2.5.2.3 Depictive compounds -- 2.5.3 Inverting modifiers -- 2.5.3.1 Low modifiers -- 2.5.3.2 Directional modifiers -- 2.5.3.3 High modifiers -- 2.5.4 Inverting heads: aki, Voice, oti, and ai -- 2.5.4.1 Instrumental aki -- 2.5.4.2 Voice -- 2.5.4.3 Exhaustive oti -- 2.5.4.4 Situational ai -- 2.5.5 Inverting high aspect: high, emphatic, and perfect -- 2.5.5.1 High aspectual modifiers -- 2.5.5.2 High emphatic modifiers -- 2.5.5.3 The perfect -- 2.5.6 The affixes -- 2.5.6.1 The prefixes faka- and ma- -- 2.5.6.2 Reduplication -- 2.5.7 Summing up: Sub-domains of the predicate -- 2.6 Serial verb constructions in Niuean -- 2.7 Solving the argument extraction problem: HiAM -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3: The arguments: High argument merge -- 3.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 3.2 Overview of HiAM -- 3.3 Catalogue of Niuean arguments -- 3.4 Internal roles: High and low -- 3.4.1 Four types of direct objects -- 3.4.2 Two object positions -- 3.4.2.1 Low objects -- 3.4.2.2 Relating high and low objects -- 3.4.2.3 High objects -- 3.4.2.4 Internal arguments of existential fai -- 3.5 The external agent role: High, low, lower, and not there -- 3.5.1 High and low ergative agents -- 3.5.2 Even lower: Implicit and non-existent agents -- 3.5.3 Summary of internal and external arguments -- 3.6 Sentences with no arguments -- 3.7 Applied arguments -- 3.7.1 Instrumental applicatives -- 3.7.2 Causativization and aki -- 3.7.3 Word order variations as composed theta grid variations -- 3.7.4 Null and overt aki |
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| spelling | Massam, Diane Verfasser (DE-588)1030232164 aut Niuean predicates and arguments in an isolating language Diane Massam First edition Oxford Oxford University Press 2020 xvi, 362 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Oxford studies of endangered languages Cover -- Niuean: Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossing and Technical Abbreviations -- Abbreviated Data Sources -- 1: Introduction: Fakaalofa lahi atu -- 1.1 Niue and the Niue language -- 1.2 Overview of Niuean -- 1.3 Methodological issues -- 1.4 Key theoretical concepts -- 1.5 Overview of the volume -- 1.6 Some personal comments -- 2: The structure of the predicate and its place in the sentence -- 2.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 2.2 Where is the V in VSO? -- 2.2.1 The merge position: Head of VP -- 2.2.2 The derived position: Low CP (Fin) -- 2.2.2.1 The position of tense -- 2.2.2.2 The predicate moves to Fin -- 2.2.2.3 The predicate does not move higher than Fin -- 2.3 Predicates are phrasal -- 2.3.1 Heavy predicates -- 2.3.2 All predicates are vPs: High categorization -- 2.3.2.1 The vP structure of ko-phrase predicates -- 2.3.2.2 The vP structure of verbal and PNI predicates -- 2.3.2.3 The vP structure of fai existential predicates -- 2.3.2.4 The vP structure of locative predicates -- 2.3.2.5 The common vP structure of all predicates -- 2.3.2.6 Motivation for predicate fronting -- 2.3.3 'V' is VP -- 2.4 Inside the predicate -- 2.4.1 Overview of Niuean complex predicates -- 2.4.2 The proposal: VP, vP, and pre-v -- 2.4.3 Deriving inversion: General issues -- 2.5 The predicate formatives -- 2.5.1 Restructuring pre-verbs -- 2.5.2 Compounding modifiers -- 2.5.2.1 Augmentative compounds -- 2.5.2.2 Resultative compounds -- 2.5.2.3 Depictive compounds -- 2.5.3 Inverting modifiers -- 2.5.3.1 Low modifiers -- 2.5.3.2 Directional modifiers -- 2.5.3.3 High modifiers -- 2.5.4 Inverting heads: aki, Voice, oti, and ai -- 2.5.4.1 Instrumental aki -- 2.5.4.2 Voice -- 2.5.4.3 Exhaustive oti -- 2.5.4.4 Situational ai -- 2.5.5 Inverting high aspect: high, emphatic, and perfect -- 2.5.5.1 High aspectual modifiers -- 2.5.5.2 High emphatic modifiers -- 2.5.5.3 The perfect -- 2.5.6 The affixes -- 2.5.6.1 The prefixes faka- and ma- -- 2.5.6.2 Reduplication -- 2.5.7 Summing up: Sub-domains of the predicate -- 2.6 Serial verb constructions in Niuean -- 2.7 Solving the argument extraction problem: HiAM -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3: The arguments: High argument merge -- 3.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 3.2 Overview of HiAM -- 3.3 Catalogue of Niuean arguments -- 3.4 Internal roles: High and low -- 3.4.1 Four types of direct objects -- 3.4.2 Two object positions -- 3.4.2.1 Low objects -- 3.4.2.2 Relating high and low objects -- 3.4.2.3 High objects -- 3.4.2.4 Internal arguments of existential fai -- 3.5 The external agent role: High, low, lower, and not there -- 3.5.1 High and low ergative agents -- 3.5.2 Even lower: Implicit and non-existent agents -- 3.5.3 Summary of internal and external arguments -- 3.6 Sentences with no arguments -- 3.7 Applied arguments -- 3.7.1 Instrumental applicatives -- 3.7.2 Causativization and aki -- 3.7.3 Word order variations as composed theta grid variations -- 3.7.4 Null and overt aki 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 Syntax (DE-588)4058779-4 gnd rswk-swf Niue-Sprache (DE-588)4447671-1 gnd rswk-swf Argument Linguistik (DE-588)4278887-0 gnd rswk-swf Prädikat (DE-588)4225652-5 gnd rswk-swf Niuean language / Grammar Niuean language / Verb phrase Niuean language Polynesia Niue-Sprache (DE-588)4447671-1 s Syntax (DE-588)4058779-4 s Prädikat (DE-588)4225652-5 s Argument Linguistik (DE-588)4278887-0 s DE-604 |
| spellingShingle | Massam, Diane Niuean predicates and arguments in an isolating language Cover -- Niuean: Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossing and Technical Abbreviations -- Abbreviated Data Sources -- 1: Introduction: Fakaalofa lahi atu -- 1.1 Niue and the Niue language -- 1.2 Overview of Niuean -- 1.3 Methodological issues -- 1.4 Key theoretical concepts -- 1.5 Overview of the volume -- 1.6 Some personal comments -- 2: The structure of the predicate and its place in the sentence -- 2.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 2.2 Where is the V in VSO? -- 2.2.1 The merge position: Head of VP -- 2.2.2 The derived position: Low CP (Fin) -- 2.2.2.1 The position of tense -- 2.2.2.2 The predicate moves to Fin -- 2.2.2.3 The predicate does not move higher than Fin -- 2.3 Predicates are phrasal -- 2.3.1 Heavy predicates -- 2.3.2 All predicates are vPs: High categorization -- 2.3.2.1 The vP structure of ko-phrase predicates -- 2.3.2.2 The vP structure of verbal and PNI predicates -- 2.3.2.3 The vP structure of fai existential predicates -- 2.3.2.4 The vP structure of locative predicates -- 2.3.2.5 The common vP structure of all predicates -- 2.3.2.6 Motivation for predicate fronting -- 2.3.3 'V' is VP -- 2.4 Inside the predicate -- 2.4.1 Overview of Niuean complex predicates -- 2.4.2 The proposal: VP, vP, and pre-v -- 2.4.3 Deriving inversion: General issues -- 2.5 The predicate formatives -- 2.5.1 Restructuring pre-verbs -- 2.5.2 Compounding modifiers -- 2.5.2.1 Augmentative compounds -- 2.5.2.2 Resultative compounds -- 2.5.2.3 Depictive compounds -- 2.5.3 Inverting modifiers -- 2.5.3.1 Low modifiers -- 2.5.3.2 Directional modifiers -- 2.5.3.3 High modifiers -- 2.5.4 Inverting heads: aki, Voice, oti, and ai -- 2.5.4.1 Instrumental aki -- 2.5.4.2 Voice -- 2.5.4.3 Exhaustive oti -- 2.5.4.4 Situational ai -- 2.5.5 Inverting high aspect: high, emphatic, and perfect -- 2.5.5.1 High aspectual modifiers -- 2.5.5.2 High emphatic modifiers -- 2.5.5.3 The perfect -- 2.5.6 The affixes -- 2.5.6.1 The prefixes faka- and ma- -- 2.5.6.2 Reduplication -- 2.5.7 Summing up: Sub-domains of the predicate -- 2.6 Serial verb constructions in Niuean -- 2.7 Solving the argument extraction problem: HiAM -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3: The arguments: High argument merge -- 3.1 Introduction to the chapter -- 3.2 Overview of HiAM -- 3.3 Catalogue of Niuean arguments -- 3.4 Internal roles: High and low -- 3.4.1 Four types of direct objects -- 3.4.2 Two object positions -- 3.4.2.1 Low objects -- 3.4.2.2 Relating high and low objects -- 3.4.2.3 High objects -- 3.4.2.4 Internal arguments of existential fai -- 3.5 The external agent role: High, low, lower, and not there -- 3.5.1 High and low ergative agents -- 3.5.2 Even lower: Implicit and non-existent agents -- 3.5.3 Summary of internal and external arguments -- 3.6 Sentences with no arguments -- 3.7 Applied arguments -- 3.7.1 Instrumental applicatives -- 3.7.2 Causativization and aki -- 3.7.3 Word order variations as composed theta grid variations -- 3.7.4 Null and overt aki Syntax (DE-588)4058779-4 gnd Niue-Sprache (DE-588)4447671-1 gnd Argument Linguistik (DE-588)4278887-0 gnd Prädikat (DE-588)4225652-5 gnd |
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