Western Austronesian voice in three Berawan-Lower Baram languages of northern Borneo: Description, Usage and Formal Syntactic Account.

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This research has three key aims. First, I will investigate the voice systems of three WesternAustronesian languages spoken in north Borneo. This will increase our understanding of thecross-linguistic typology of syntactic voice, and address the controversial areas of grammaticalrelations, syntactic alignment and voice choice. Second, I will document the endangered andpreviously undescribed Narum language, by recording a range of multipurpose texts to bearchived in an open-access online language repository. Finally, this project will make asubstantial theoretical contribution by developing an analysis of Symmetrical Voice within theminimalist syntax framework.