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Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectivesEdited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
[Typological Studies in Language 96] 2011
► pp. 659–684
Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy
Eric Potsdam | University of Florida
This paper explores the syntax and semantics of the exclamative clause type in the Austronesian language Malagasy. Cross-linguistic considerations, distributional facts, and language-internal morphosyntax provide evidence that Malagasy exclamatives are syntactically nominal. All exclamatives are noun phrases, as in the English The things that he says! Unlike English, Malagasy has no clausal exclamatives. Based on the Malagasy data, the paper proposes that the exclamative force of nominals, in Malagasy and other languages, is located in the determiner layer of the structure.
Published online: 29 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.23pot
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.23pot
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