Ay-Inversion in Tagalog
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Patrick Nuhn
About this book
Tagalog, an Austronesian language, is widely spoken and understood throughout the Philippine archipelago where it served as the basis for the national language Filipino. The language is often cited for its many unusual linguistic properties. Drawing on both spoken fieldwork data and written data from novels, this study investigates several phenomena at Tagalog’s interface of information structure and morphosyntax.
Aside from the default predicate-initial word order, the Tagalog language has several information-structurally marked constructions that allow other constituents to appear in the sentence initial position. One of these constructions is ay-inversion. Although it is often labeled a topic-marking construction, it is actually far more versatile. This book aims to explore some of its many facets.
The investigation of ay-inversion begins with a survey of its various uses that appear in the data, including some that have to date received very little if any attention in the literature, such as reversed ang-inversion, which combines two of the language’s inversion constructions. Selected observations are then modeled in Role and Reference Grammar and their implications for Tagalog syntax are explored. Finally, the role of ay-inversion in anaphora resolution is investigated and selected processes are modeled in a frame-based account.
- Innovative analyses of based on Role and Reference Grammar and Frame Semantics
- Extensive investigation of the information-structural effects of the ay-inversion construction
- First detailed examination of the reversed ang-inversion construction
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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List of Abbreviations
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List of Glosses
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1 Introduction
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2 Introduction to Role and Reference Grammar
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3 Data Collection
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4 A Broad Look at ay-Inversion
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5 Towards a Description of ay-inversion in Role and Reference Grammar
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6 Reference Tracking, Topic Chains, and ay-Inversion
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7 Reversed ang-Inversion
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8 Conclusion
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A Translation Tasks used for Elicitation
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B Story Prompts Used for Elicitation
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Bibliography
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Index
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