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Malagasy Existentials: A Syntactic Account of Specificity

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Since Milsark (1974), existential sentences have been the centre of much debate. (1) – (4) illustrate typical examples in English (SVO) and Malagasy (VOS).1.2

This paper has benefitted from discussion with Mark Baker, Hidekazu Tanaka and Lisa Travis, as well as participants at AFLA-2 and an anonymous reviewer. I would also like to thank Michèle Rahatovonony for the Malagasy data. All errors are my own responsibility. Research for this paper was funded in part by a grant (FCAR 94ER0578) to Lisa Travis and a Hydro Québec Award to the author, for which I am grateful.

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Paul, I. (2000). Malagasy Existentials: A Syntactic Account of Specificity. In: Paul, I., Phillips, V., Travis, L. (eds) Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1580-5_4

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