Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots

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Yiannis Katochoritis, Magdalena Lohninger

Published: 07 Feb 2025, Last Modified: 23 Apr 2025WCCFL 2025 talkEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: Austronesian, pivots, non-canonical passives, Condition C, case-licensing, late merge, subjecthood
TL;DR: The paper presents a non-canonical passive analysis of promotion to pivot in Austronesian Balinese and Malagasy, discussing syntactic micro-variation with respect to Condition C and case-licensing.
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Submission Number: 82

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