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Malagasy fact- and claim-type nominals

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Malagasy has two characteristics that are interesting for a study of nominalizations: (i) one expresses ‘the fact that x’ with a nominalized form of the verb used when an adjunct is extracted, (ii) non-derived nominals expressing notions such as ‘the idea’ or ‘the statement’ cannot take CP complements directly. We explore these facts within the context of Kayne’s claim that nouns cannot take complements and that apparent CP complements are relative clauses. We suggest (i) that the verb form used to express ‘the fact that x’ is created through adjunct relativization, and (ii) that nouns in Malagasy may only take CP complements if either they are derived from verbs or if the sentential complements contain a verb-like head.

  • Affiliations: 1: McGill University; 2: Université d’Antananarivo; 3: Université d’Antsiranana

References

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    1971 Grammaire malgache. Fianarantsoa: Centre de Formation Pédagogique.
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References

  1. Abney, Steven
    1987 The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. PhD dissertation, MIT.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Baker, Mark C
    2003 Lexical Categories. Cambridge: CUP. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511615047
     https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615047 [Google Scholar]
  3. Chomsky, Noam
    1995 The Minimalist Program. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Frajzyngier, Zygmunt
    1984 On the origin of say and se as complementizers in Black English and English-based creoles. American Speech59(3): 207–210. doi: 10.2307/454486
     https://doi.org/10.2307/454486 [Google Scholar]
  5. Grimshaw, Jane
    1990 Argument Structure. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
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  6. Guimarães, Maximiliano
    2000 In defense of vacuous projections in bare phrase structure. InUniversity of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics9, Maximiliano Guimarães , Luisa Meroni , Cilene Rodrigues & Itziar San Martin (eds), 90–115. College Park MD: University of Maryland.
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  7. Kayne, Richard
    2011 Antisymmetry and the lexicon. InThe Biolinguistic Enterprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty, Anna Maria Di Sciullo & Cedric Boeckx (ed.), 329–353. Oxford: OUP.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Kayne, Richard S
    1994 The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Keenan, Edward L
    1972 On semantically based grammar. Linguistic Inquiry3(4): 413–461.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. 1976 Remarkable subjects in Malagasy. InSubject and Topic, Charles N. Li (ed.), 249–301. New York: Academic Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Malzac, Victorin
    1993 Dictionnaire français-malgache. Antananarivo: Mission Catholiquede Tananarive.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Ntelitheos, Dimitris
    2006 The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study. PhD dissertation, UCLA.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. Paul, Ileana
    1996 F-words and other (Malagasy) nominals. In Proceedings of Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), 321–332. Calgary: University of Calgary Working Papers.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Pearson, Matthew
    2005 The Malagasy subject/topic as an A0-element. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory23(2): 381–457. doi: 10.1007/s11049‑004‑1582‑7
     https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-004-1582-7 [Google Scholar]
  15. Rajaona, Roger-Bruno
    1985 Lexique-grammaire du malgache: Constructions transitives et intransitive. PhD dissertation, Département de Recherches Linguistiques Laboratoire d’Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Rajemisa-Raolison, Régis
    1971 Grammaire malgache. Fianarantsoa: Centre de Formation Pédagogique.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Richardson, James
    1885 A New Malagasy-English Dictionary. London: London Missionary Society.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Valois, Daniel
    1991 The Internal Syntax of DP. PhD dissertation, UCLA.
     [Google Scholar]

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