Ellipsis as a Diagnostic Tool of Feature Strength and the Syntactic Structure of Ilocano

This dissertation examines Ilocano, an Austronesian Filipino language, within the Minimalist Framework, in an effort to tease apart the general syntactic properties of the language. I show that Ilocano underlying structure can easily be captured within the standard syntactic structures proposed for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Michael Don
Other Authors: Karimi, Simin
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195692