Deriving Nominals

A Syntactic Account of Malagasy Nominalizations
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22397-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

This book provides a detailed study of nominalizing patterns in Malagasy (Austronesian) and discusses the broader theoretical issues that arise from these patterns. It explores new and original fieldwork data drawn from the largely unexplored domain of Malagasy deverbal nominals. Offering new insights to long-standing puzzles in the derivation of argument-structure, referential, and clausal nominals, the book promotes a single structure-building mechanism, which allows nominalizers to attach at different heights in the clausal spine to derive nominals with different morphosyntactic properties. In addition, it provides a novel analysis of participant nominalizations, showing that they are derived through the same mechanism that derives relative clauses, and thus setting the stage for new and exciting research directions.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, researchers and doctoral fellows interested in formal approaches to linguistics, as well as general readers and language students interested in Malagasy and other Austronesian languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ntelitheos, Dimitrios

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Ntelitheos, Dimitrios
Dimitrios Ntelitheos, Ph.D. (2005) in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at United Arab Emirates University. He has published work on Malagasy, Greek, and Emirati Arabic morphological and syntactic structure and its acquisition by children.