Indonesian Voice and A-Bar Movement

  • Jan E. Voskuil
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Part of the Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory book series (SNLT, volume 49)

Abstract

In this paper I present an analysis of the Indonesian voice system in terms of universal principles. It is structured as follows. In section 1, I will present the basic facts and assumptions, and frame the basic generalisation that the rest of the paper will attempt to explain. Section 2 investigates an apparent exception to the generalisation, and will demonstrate that upon scrutiny, the exception corroborates rather than endangers the generalisation. Section 3 lays out the ground work for an explanation, which will be further developed in section 4. Section 5 closes the paper.

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Noun Phrase Relative Clause Subject Position Object Position Subject Extraction 
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