TY - UNPB
T1 - Some issues on verbal reciprocals in Malagasy
AU - Law, Paul
N1 - Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper claims that there is but one morphological realization of reciprocals in Malagasy. It clarifies Keenan & Razafimamonji’s (2004) arguments against the syntactic analysis of the reciprocal morpheme if-. It shows that most of them are in fact quite compatible with the syntactic treatment of if-. It nevertheless argues that certain facts about comparative ellipsis cannot be accounted for by the syntactic account, but can be explained by their view that if- is derived from an affixation rule. Split plural argument, however, remains problematic for both views.
AB - This paper claims that there is but one morphological realization of reciprocals in Malagasy. It clarifies Keenan & Razafimamonji’s (2004) arguments against the syntactic analysis of the reciprocal morpheme if-. It shows that most of them are in fact quite compatible with the syntactic treatment of if-. It nevertheless argues that certain facts about comparative ellipsis cannot be accounted for by the syntactic account, but can be explained by their view that if- is derived from an affixation rule. Split plural argument, however, remains problematic for both views.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics
SP - 115
EP - 127
BT - Some issues on verbal reciprocals in Malagasy
PB - Victoria University of Wellington
CY - Wellington, New Zealand
ER -