Deriving the order of heads and adjuncts: the case of Niuean DPs
- This paper examines substantive noun phrases in Niuean, a Polynesian language of the Tongic subgroup with VSO word order, isolating morphology, and an ergative case system. We describe the allowable orderings of elements in the Niuean noun phrase, which include certain variations in the placement of numerals and the genitive possessor, then we provide a phrasal movement analysis for these variations, treating first the possessor variation, then the numeral variation. Parallels will be drawn between the derivation of nominal and sentential word order.
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| Author: | Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Diane Massam |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308823 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/194.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20-- |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association: Proceedings of AFLA ..., Teil: 11, ZAS, Berlin 2004, zugl.: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Vol. 34 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Generative Transformationsgrammatik; Wortstellung; Syntax; Niue-Sprache |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| First Page: | 135 |
| Last Page: | 147 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381257703 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 34 = Proceedings of AFLA 11 : ZAS, Berlin 2004 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306757 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
