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This volume explores various problems in the syntax of Austronesian languages, which are found primarily in Malaysia and the Polynesian islands. Using the framework of constraint-based theories of syntax, contributors discuss the nature of these voice systems, the function of their verbal morphology, valence, verbal diathesis and transitivity in such languages, and the nature of their lexical categories. Each analysis is presented within the frameworks of lexical-functional grammar and head-driven phrase structure grammar.Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian Languages (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes), was published 2007 under ISBN 9781575864990 and ISBN 1575864991.
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