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

这项研究有三个主要目标。首先，我将调查北婆罗洲所说的三种西南岛语言的语音系统。这将增加我们对句法语态跨语言类型学的理解，并解决语法关系、句法对齐和语态选择等有争议的领域。其次，我将通过记录一系列多用途的文本，将濒危的和以前未描述的纳鲁姆语言记录下来，并将其存档到一个开放访问的在线语言库中。最后，本课题将在最简句法框架下对对称语态进行分析，从而做出实质性的理论贡献。

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.