Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog

Billings, Loren

doi:10.1075/la.73.20bil

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“…Our results can be interpreted as showing that unmodified ang encodes specificity (as argued by Himmelmann 1998 andBillings 2005). Recall that unmodified ang is interpreted as familiar and takes wide scope.…”

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confidence: 59%

Definiteness without D: The case ofangandngin Tagalog

2015

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This paper considers the syntactic and semantic properties of two vocabulary items in Tagalog, ang and ng. It is shown that although ang and ng appear to encode definiteness (via familiarity), they are in fact unmarked for definiteness, being compatible with both familiar and novel readings. Crucial data from modification by weak quantifiers are presented in favour of this description. The default interpretation of ang and ng as familiar and novel, respectively, arises due to their syntactic position (subject versus object). Given that ang and ng mark case, it is argued that they are case markers in K° and not determiners.

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Definiteness without D: The case ofangandngin Tagalog

2015

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“…For adults, however, there is no consensus on the canonical word order of Tagalog (see Garcia, Dery, et al, 2018 for a review). Billings (2005) argues that the canonical word order is pivot-final, while others (e.g., Aldridge, 2004) argue that the canonical order is agent-initial. In fact, it is also possible that agent voice has two canonical orders: verb-agent-patient and verb-patient-agent, as suggested by Guilfoyle, Hung, and Travis (1992) and Kroeger (1993).…”

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An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog

Tanaka

O’Grady²,

Deen³

et al. 2019

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This article reports on the acquisition of relative clauses in Tagalog, the most widely spoken language in the Philippines. A distinctive feature of Tagalog is a unique system of voice that creates competing patterns, each with different possibilities for relativization. This study of children’s performance on agent and patient relative clauses in a comprehension task revealed an agent relative clause advantage. These findings cannot be explained by the voice preference in declarative clauses, but are compatible with an explanation based upon input frequency factors.

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“…The order of the postverbal arguments in Tagalog is relatively free (Schachter 2015), and its basic order remains controversial with various proposals from different researchers: verb-agent-patient (VAP) for both voices (Buenaventura-Naylor 1975;Manueli 2010;Schachter 2015); verb-patientagent (VPA) for the agent voice and VAP for the patient voice (Billings 2005); VAP for the agent voice and VPA for the patient voice (Aldridge 2002); and VAP for the patient voice and both VAP and VPA for the agent voice (Guilfoyle, Hung & Travis 1992;Kroeger 1993). What is important for the current study is that word order is irrelevant for assigning thematic roles in basic sentences, so (1) and (3) have the same meaning, because they are both in the agent voice, and only the order of the nouns differs between the two sentences.…”

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Thematic role assignment in the L1 acquisition of Tagalog: Use of word order and morphosyntactic markers

Garcia

Roeser

Hoehle

2018

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It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts that have been proposed to explain this difficulty: the frequency account, the Competition Model, and the incremental processing account. Study 1 presents an analysis of Tagalog child-directed speech, which showed that the dominant argument order is agent-before-patient and that morphosyntactic markers are highly valid cues to thematic role assignment. In Study 2, we used a combined selfpaced listening and picture verification task to test how Tagalog-speaking adults and 5-and 7-year-old children process reversible transitive sentences. Results showed that adults performed well in all conditions, while children's accuracy and listening times for the first noun phrase indicated more difficulty in interpreting patient-initial sentences in the agent voice compared to the patient voice. The patient voice advantage is partly explained by both the frequency account and incremental processing account. ARTICLE HISTORYdescribe an experiment that tests Tagalog-speaking children's use of word order and morphosyntactic markers for interpreting simple transitive sentences (Study 2). Possible reasons behind children's difficulties with noncanonical sentencesDifferent accounts have been proposed to explain children's difficulties with noncanonical sentences. These claims shed light on the strategies that children use for sentence comprehension, and when children are expected to acquire noncanonical word order in different languages.

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Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog

Cited by 10 publications

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Definiteness without D: The case ofangandngin Tagalog

Definiteness without D: The case ofangandngin Tagalog

An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog

Thematic role assignment in the L1 acquisition of Tagalog: Use of word order and morphosyntactic markers

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