Austronesian alignment
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Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic alignment pattern
→
morphosyntactic alignment system → syntactic phenomenon → |
| affects |
argument extraction restrictions
→
case-marking of core arguments → word order possibilities → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Austronesian-type voice system
→
Philippine-type alignment → |
| associatedWithLanguageFamily |
Austronesian languages
→
|
| characterizedBy |
focus system on verbal morphology
→
lack of clear ergative–absolutive pattern → lack of clear nominative–accusative pattern → multiple transitive voices → symmetrical voice alternations → voice system marking different core arguments → |
| contrastedWith |
ergative–absolutive alignment
→
nominative–accusative alignment → |
| difficultToAnalyzeAs |
purely accusative
→
purely ergative → |
| hasExampleLanguage |
Atayal
→
Cebuano → Ilocano → Kapampangan → Kavalan → Malagasy → Seediq → Tagalog → |
| hasKeyConcept |
actor voice
→
circumstantial voice → locative voice → patient voice → pivot argument → voice-marked argument → |
| involves |
alternation of which argument is privileged
→
morphological marking of semantic roles → |
| marksOn |
verb
→
|
| privilegedArgumentCalled |
pivot
→
subject (in some analyses) → |
| privileges |
one core argument per clause
→
|
| relatedTo |
voice and focus systems in Austronesian linguistics
→
|
| resembles |
Philippine-type voice system
→
|
| studiedInField |
linguistic typology
→
morphology → syntax → |
| usedIn |
Formosan languages
→
many Philippine languages → some Bornean languages → some Indonesian languages → some Oceanic languages → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Cebuano language
→
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alignmentType |