The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)
The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981)
| dc.contributor.author | Starosta, Stanley | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Pawley, Andrew | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Reid, Lawrence A. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-07T17:27:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-05-07T17:27:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The 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. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 154 pages | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stanley 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/33042 | |
| dc.subject | Philippine-type languages | en_US |
| dc.subject | Syntactic change | en_US |
| dc.subject | Voice-marking | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Austronesian languages | en_US |
| dc.title | The Evolution of Focus in Austronesian (1981) | en_US |
| dc.type | Book Chapter | en_US |
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