The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element

Pearson, Matthew

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“…Guilfoyle, Hung, and Travis 1992;Aldridge 2004). The conclusion that promotion of the THEME to subject position in (7b) is not Case-driven forms part of a larger conclusion that Tagalog lacks Case-driven A-movement more generally, and that all instances of movement into subject position actually involve A-bar movement (see, in particular, Richards 2000;Sells 2000;Pearson 2005;Hymes et. al.…”

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“…I'll assume the presence of a null expletive in recent perfective clauses as well. 2 See also Pearson (2005) and Rackowski and Richards (2005). See Chung (1982) and Georgopoulos (1991, who set the empirical and theoretical background for this idea within the larger setting of Western Austronesian languages.…”

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“…The first point is relevant to the analysis of examples like (1b) from above (repeated below as (7b)). Although examples like (7b), where the direct object is promoted to subject, have occasionally been analyzed as passive sentences, there is substantial evidence-discussed in Schachter 1976:512;Kroeger 1993;Richards 2000;Rackowski 2002;Pearson 2005;Rackowski and Richards 2005; among others-which argues against this analysis. Rather, the evidence discussed by these authors (which, for reasons of space I will not review in detail here, but see above references) argues that a sentence like (7b) is transitive and active just as its minimal-pair counterpart, (7a), is (i.e., these sentences do not differ in voice).…”

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Adjectival passives and the structure of VP in Tagalog

Sabbagh

2011

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Adjectival passives and the structure of VP in Tagalog

Sabbagh

2011

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“…Among those now advocating the base-generation approach is Keenan (2008). Other researchers, however, treat these constructions as derived by movement (see, for instance, Pearson 2001Pearson , 2005.…”

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“…Rackowski and Richards (2005) propose that the Tagalog analogues of (5) are derived by movement of arguments to check an EPP feature on the head of vP. On the other hand, Pearson (2005) proposes that in Malagasy, these clauses involve wh-movement of a silent operator which is bound by a topic DP, and this topic DP is base-generated high in the periphery of the clause.…”

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Introduction

Chung

Polinsky

2009

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This introduction surveys the prospects for developing a systematic comparative approach to Austronesian syntax and outlines the benefits of such an approach for syntactic theory. We begin with a brief overview of Austronesian languages, focusing on some typologically unusual aspects of their grammar, and the theoretical explanations that have been proposed for these features. We then survey the articles in the rest of this volume and the theoretical questions they address. A novel feature of this special issue is that each article is followed by a commentary by another Austronesian linguist which engages the same issues from a different perspective. The pairings of article and commentary should give readers a window into the study of Austronesian syntax and its current contributions to linguistic theory.

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Verb‐Initial Word Orders, Primarily in Austronesian and Mayan Languages

Clemens¹,

Polinsky²

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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This chapter presents several approaches to the syntax of verb‐initial (V1) languages with a special emphasis on Mayan and Austronesian languages. Some V1 languages are strictly VSO, others are VOS, and a significant number combine both orders. This chapter focuses on data from VSO/VOS languages and the factors that underlie these alternations. A number of V1 languages can be more adequately characterized as predicate‐initial, with V1 representing just a subset of possible clause‐initial predicates. The chapter presents a number of structural properties that are or may be associated with V1 and discusses possible implicational relations between such properties and V1. While there are certain common characteristics observed across V1 languages, it is also clear that there are several distinct subtypes of V1. These subtypes call for different syntactic analyses; main approaches include the derivation of V1 via phrasal movement (VP‐raising) and via head‐movement (verb‐raising). Other syntactic approaches to the derivation of V1 include the parametrization of specifier direction within a single language, non‐configurational syntax, and subject lowering. In addition to these purely syntactic analyses, several recent approaches place the derivation of V1 outside syntax or at the syntax–PF interface. Careful, in‐depth analyses of individual languages are required to test the different approaches to V1; in quite a few cases such analyses are still lacking.

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The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element

Cited by 108 publications

References 24 publications

Adjectival passives and the structure of VP in Tagalog

Adjectival passives and the structure of VP in Tagalog

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Verb‐Initial Word Orders, Primarily in Austronesian and Mayan Languages

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