Selayarese Syntax

这个项目的目的是收集来自印度尼西亚塞拉亚岛的一种南岛语言Selayarese的句法方面的数据，并在普遍语法理论的更广泛的比较背景下考虑这些数据。要研究的主要问题是：动词形态对句法结构、词序和一致、wh疑问句、关系从句和其他名词性结构的影响，句子补充的其他方面，以及“巡回”(Friberg，1992)绝对标记的分布。该项目将提供关于一种鲜为人知的语言的语法的新信息，并将使人们更好地了解《普遍语法》几个模块的组织方式，以及如何将这些模块参数化以部分定义个别语言的语法。

Descriptive and Theoretical Studies in Selayarese Syntax The aim of this project is to collect data on the syntax of Selayarese, an Austronesian language from Selayar Island, Indonesia, and to consider the data in the wider comparative context of a theory of Universal Grammar. The primary topics to be investigated are: the effects of verbal morphology on syntactic structure, word order and agreement, wh-questions, relative clauses and other nominal structure, further aspects of sentential complementation, and the distribution of the "peripatetic" (Friberg 1992) absolutive marker. The project will make available new information on the syntax of a little known language, and should lead to a greater understanding of the organization of several modules of Universal Grammar and the ways in which they can be parameterized to partially define the grammars of individual languages.