32.3265, Books: Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces: Clemens, Massam (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:50:43
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces: Clemens, Massam (eds.)

 


Title: Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/polynesian-syntax-and-its-interfaces-9780198860839?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Laura Clemens
Editor: Diane Massam

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198860839 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its
interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on
Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present
multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic
research, and in recent years, data from Polynesian languages has also
contributed to advances in the fields of prosody and semantics, as well as to
the study of parametric variation. The chapters in this volume offer in-depth
analyses of a range of theoretical issues at the syntax-semantics and
syntax-prosody interfaces, both within individual languages and from a
comparative Polynesian perspective. They examine key topics including: word
order variation, ergativity and case systems, causativization, negation,
raising, modality and superlatives, and the left periphery of both the
sentential and nominal domains. The findings not only shed light on the
theoretical typology of Polynesian languages, but also have implications for
linguistic theory as a whole.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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