The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives
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Jozina Vander Klok
Abstract
This chapter investigates post-verbal word order in Javanese across applicative and non-applicative constructions with two internal (non-subject) arguments. The morphosyntactic alternations of post-verbal arguments are examined from the perspective of their relative prominence in terms of grammatical relations and interactions with other syntactic operations like passivization. Beyond providing an in-depth description of the available post-verbal word orders across different predicate-types, my first main claim is that the post-verbal word orders and their restrictions across both applicative and non-applicative constructions follow from the relative prominence due to the grammatical relations hierarchy. Secondly, I suggest that restrictions on passivization to only the applied object with the ‘locative’ -i applicative follow from the prominence of the applied object as a structural attractor, but that independent factors such as additional variable word order with the ‘benefactive’ -ake/-ke/-no applicative has opened the possibility for the non-applied theme NP to be passivized.
Abstract
This chapter investigates post-verbal word order in Javanese across applicative and non-applicative constructions with two internal (non-subject) arguments. The morphosyntactic alternations of post-verbal arguments are examined from the perspective of their relative prominence in terms of grammatical relations and interactions with other syntactic operations like passivization. Beyond providing an in-depth description of the available post-verbal word orders across different predicate-types, my first main claim is that the post-verbal word orders and their restrictions across both applicative and non-applicative constructions follow from the relative prominence due to the grammatical relations hierarchy. Secondly, I suggest that restrictions on passivization to only the applied object with the ‘locative’ -i applicative follow from the prominence of the applied object as a structural attractor, but that independent factors such as additional variable word order with the ‘benefactive’ -ake/-ke/-no applicative has opened the possibility for the non-applied theme NP to be passivized.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction 1
- The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates 19
- Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat 55
- Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit 91
- The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives 129
- The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese 169
- Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi 201
- Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP 229
- Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic) 267
- Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse 305
- Index 329
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction 1
- The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates 19
- Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat 55
- Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit 91
- The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives 129
- The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese 169
- Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi 201
- Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP 229
- Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic) 267
- Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse 305
- Index 329
