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Ay-Inversion in Tagalog - Information Structure and Morphosyntax of an Austronesian Language (Paperback)
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Ay-Inversion in Tagalog - Information Structure and Morphosyntax of an Austronesian Language (Paperback)
Series: Dissertations in Language and Cognition
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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.
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