The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)

dc.contributor.authorStarosta, Stanley
dc.contributor.authorPawley, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorReid, Lawrence A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-07T17:27:57Z
dc.date.available2014-05-07T17:27:57Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe present paper attempts to account for the evolution of Western Austronesian focus constructions by showing that they evolved as a result of the reinterpretation of nominalized equational constructions by analogy with functionally equivalent verbal constructions, i.e., *-en, *ni-/-in-, *-ana, *iSi-, and possibly *mu-/-um- were all noun-deriving affixes in PAN that their verbal focus usages in the Formosan and Philippine languages represent a secondary development.
dc.format.extent154 pages
dc.identifier.citationStanley Starosta, Andrew Pawley and Reid, Lawrence. "The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)." In Formosan Linguistics: Stanley Starosta's Contributions, vol. 2, edited by Elizabeth Zeitoun, 329-481. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series C6. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2009.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/33042
dc.subjectPhilippine-type languages
dc.subjectSyntactic change
dc.subjectVoice-marking
dc.subject.lcshAustronesian languages
dc.titleThe Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)
dc.typeBook Chapter

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