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Series: Current Studies in Linguistics
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 December 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7670.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262258807
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262270274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 October 2003
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5927.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262270274
With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis of indefiniteness in terms of restricted free variables, they claim that some varieties of indefinites are better analyzed by taking restriction and saturation to be fundamental semantic operations.Chapters examine the general topic of modes of composition (including predicate restriction and syntactic versus semantic saturation), types of indefinite determiners in Maori, and object incorporation in Chamorro (including discussions of the extra object and restriction without saturation). The authors' goal is that the two case studies they offer, and their larger focus on modes of composition, will contribute to a broader account of the interaction of form, position, and semantic interpretation.