Austronesian syntax

Статья будет опубликована в Palmer B. (ed.) Oceania. Berlin: Mouton.This chapter presents on overview of major syntactic issues in the analysis of Austronesian
languages. Certain typologically unusual aspects of syntactic design are known to recur in the
different groupings within the Austronesian family, and each raises interesting theoretical
questions from both Austronesian-internal perspectives and general theoretical perspectives. The
phenomena include widespread predicate-first (head-initial) word order, articulated voice
systems, strict extraction restrictions, and articulated systems of possession marking. We hope to
give a sense of the empirical picture and the theoretical issues that they raise, as well as address
several other fundamental aspects of Austronesian syntactic structure.