Deriving Nominals - A Syntactic Account of Malagasy Nominalizations

This book provides original fieldwork data, uniquely generating all Malagasy deverbal nominals from a single structure-building mechanism, allowing variable syntactic attachment heights for different nominalizers and tracing the derivation of participant nominals to a relative clause source.

About the author

Dimitrios Ntelitheos, Ph.D. (2005) in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at United Arab Emirates University. He has published work on Malagasy, Greek, and Emirati Arabic morphological and syntactic structure and its acquisition by children.

Product details

• Authors: Dimitrios Ntelitheos
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9789004223974
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22397-4
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Lingui
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics