- Title
- Pronouns and the DP in Hoava
- Creator
- Palmer, Bill
- Relation
- Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 23, p. 191-203
- Relation
- https://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/wwp
- Publisher
- Victoria University of Wellington, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Following Abney (1989), the notion of the Determiner Phrase (DP) is established in syntactic theory. However, it has not been widely adopted by scholars working within descriptive and typological frameworks, and is not a feature of the Oceanic descriptive tradition, despite Lynch et al.’s (2002: 38) curious statement that articles in Oceanic languages “precede a noun phrase”. Nominal phrases in Oceanic languages have rarely been analysed in terms of a DP, exceptions being largely confined to syntactic literature on Polynesian and other Central Pacific languages. In this regard, Pearce has been a leader in the field. Her early works on aspects of the DP in Maori (1997a,b; 1998a; 1998b; 2003) are among the earliest applications of the DP to an Oceanic language, preceded only by her colleague Waite (1994). Her application of the DP to the Southern Oceanic languages Iaai (Pearce 2000; 2001, etc.), Unua (Pearce 2007; 2010; 2011; 2012, etc.) and Ninde (Pearce 2012) led the way in applying the DP to Oceanic languages outside Central Pacific. This paper is intended as a tribute to Pearce’s pioneering work in the syntax of Oceanic languages in general, and of the DP in Oceanic in particular.
- Subject
- determiner phrase; syntactic theory; Oceanic languages; Hoava; New Georgia Island, (Solomon Islands)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386691
- Identifier
- uon:32444
- Identifier
- ISSN:1170-1978
- Language
- eng
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