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Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell
[Linguistic Variation 17:2] 2017
► pp. 292–308

Reduced structure in Malagasy headlines

| University of Western Ontario

This paper examines the register associated with headlines in Malagasy. While in many languages headlines appear to have reduced structure as evidenced by the absence of certain grammatical markers (determiners, copulas, tense), Malagasy headlines show a change in word order from VOS to SVO. It is argued that like English, Malagasy headlines involve a truncated syntactic structure and that the absence of certain functional projections accounts for the change in word order.

Keywords: malagasy, headlines, register variation, truncation, word order
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1Headlines
    • 2.2Malagasy clause structure
  • 3.Headlines in Malagasy
  • 4.Analysis
  • 5.Alternative accounts
    • 5.1Clefts
    • 5.2Relative clauses
    • 5.3Existentials
  • 6.SVO
    • 6.1Embedded SVO
    • 6.2SVO in Antakarana
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 January 2018
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