Existential, Possessive and Locative Constructions in Yami Language: A comparative study to Formosan languages

This study reports on Yami existential, possessive and locative constructions, regarding the issues on (i) two ‘HAVE’ structures, (ii) Definiteness Effect (DE) and (iii) an analysis of small clause, in terms of a formal syntactic approach. Compared with Formosan languages, Yami syntactically shows...

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Main Author: Chihjen Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2020-06-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=855&