TY  - CHAP
A1  - Aldridge, Edith
T1  - Antipassive and specificity in Tagalog
T2  - 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
N2  - It is common knowledge in the field of Philippine linguistics that an ang-marked direct object in a non-actor focus clause must be definite or generic, while a ng-marked object in an actor focus clause typically receives a nonspecific interpretation. However, in contexts like wh-questions, the oblique object in an antipassive may be interpreted as specific, as noted by Schachter & Otanes (1972), Maclachlan & Nakamura (1997), Rackowski (2002), and others. […] In this paper, I propose to account for the specificity effects […] within the analysis of Tagalog syntax put forth by Aldridge (2004). I analyze Tagalog as an ergative language […]. Cross linguistically, antipassive oblique objects receive a nonspecific interpretation, while absolutives are definite or generic. I show in this paper how the Tagalog facts can be subsumed under a general account of ergativity.
KW  - Generative Transformationsgrammatik
KW  - Tagalog
KW  - Ergativ
KW  - Genus verbi
KW  - Spezifität
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30873
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308730
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/194.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20--
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 34
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -