Niuean : predicates and arguments in an isolating language

• 資料種別: 図書
• ISBN: 0198793553; 9780198793557
• タイトル: Niuean : predicates and arguments in an isolating language
• 著者・編者: Diane Massam
• 版: First edition
• シリーズタイトル: Oxford studies of endangered languages
• タイトル標目: Oxford studies of endangered languages
• 著者標目: Massam, Diane
• 出版事項: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press (出版)
• 出版年月日等: 2020
• 出版年（W3CDTF）: 2020
• 数量: xvi, 362 pages
• 形態の詳細: illustrations
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 出版地（国名コード）: GB
• 本文の言語コード: eng; niu
• 表現種別: text
• 機器種別: unmediated
• キャリア種別: volume
• 件名標目: Niuean language--Grammar; Niuean language--Verb phrase; Niuean language--Grammar.; Niuean language.; Polynesia.
• LCC: PL6481
• DDC: 410
• NDLC: KL181
• 対象利用者: 一般
• 資料の内容に関する注記: This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case.Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics
• 書誌注記: Includes bibliographical references and index
• 所蔵機関: 国立国会図書館
• 請求記号: KL181-D1
• 連携機関・データベース: 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• 書誌ID（NDLBibID）: 030235434; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/030235434
• OCLC番号: 1128194658; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1128194658
• 目録規則: RDA
• 整理区分コード: 211

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