Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax /

Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax / / ed. by Joachim Sabel, Claire Moyse-Faurie.

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This monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages. For the first time, aspects of the morphology and syntax of Oceanic languages such as the encoding of sentence types, the structure of the noun phrase, noun incorporation, constituent order, and ergative vs. accusative alignment...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bril, Isabelle,
Ikiua, Ofania,
Margetts, Anna,
Massam, Diane,
Moyse-Faurie, Claire,
Otsuka, Yuko,
Pearce, Elizabeth,
Polinsky, Maria,
Potsdam, Eric,
Sabel, Joachim,
Starks, Donna,
Vernaudon, Jacques,
HerausgeberIn:
Moyse-Faurie, Claire,
Sabel, Joachim,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 239
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Part one: Sentential syntax and sentence types
  • Deriving linear order in OV/VO languages: evidence from Oceanic languages
  • Questions and answers in Niuean
  • Questions and word order in Polynesian
  • Nominalization and exclamation in Oceanic languages
  • Part two: Nominal morphosyntax
  • Two or three things in the Unua noun phrase
  • Noun incorporation in Saliba
  • Noun-phrase conjunction in Austronesian languages: additive, inclusory and comitative strategies
  • Part three: Historical developments
  • Neither accusative nor ergative: an alternative analysis of case in Eastern Polynesian
  • Grammaticalization of Tahitian mea ‘thing, matter’ into a stative aspect
  • Subject index
  • Language index

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