Conference proceeding
Acquisition of Tagalog Relative Clauses
Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.2, pp.463-470
01/01/2014
Abstract
The syntax of Tagalog, the language of more than 22 million people in the Philippines, has long been a matter of controversy and puzzlement. Variously described as nominative-accusative (e.g., Rackowski, 2002), ergative (e.g., Aldridge, 2004), and 'symmetrical' (e.g., Foley, 1998), it is characterized by interacting systems of verbal affixation and case marking that jointly select one of the verb's arguments as prominent (or 'focused'). We set to the side for now the question of how Tagalog should be classified, concentrating instead on the question of how its unique properties are manifested and acquired in basic relative clause patterns. Adapted from the source document
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Acquisition of Tagalog Relative Clauses
- Creators
- Nozomi TanakaWilliam O'GradyKamil DeenChae-Eun KimRyoko HattoriIvan BondocJennifer Soriano
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.2, pp.463-470
- ISSN
- 1080-692X
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984702720102771
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