{"title":"Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics","authors":"L. Clemens, Diane Massam","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the volume on Polynesian syntax and its interfaces. It presents an overview of the Polynesian language family and outlines the key typological features of the languages. The history of research on Polynesian languages is reviewed, with a focus on modern research in theoretical syntax and semantics. This historical overview is followed by a summary of each chapter in the volume, in which the connecting theoretical issues are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":375022,"journal":{"name":"Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115483065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hawaiian ai at the syntax-phonology interface","authors":"David J. Medeiros","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers an explanation for the distribution of the Hawaiian particle ai. While ai has often been understood as a resumptive element in the generative literature, ai is not a pronoun and it does not have independent lexical features. The distribution of ai is such that it appears in any construction with an A-bar gap, excluding those involving local subject movement. Non-canonical word orders without ai are argued to not involve gaps, based on complementizer alternations. Given this distribution, ai is analyzed as a phonological repair for otherwise illicit linearization statements. Connecting ai to linearization explains how ai has the distribution of a resumptive pronoun despite not having lexical features. The similarities between resumption (for languages that have it) and the distribution of ai follow not from sharing the same mechanism, but from cross-linguistic properties which constrain the locality of syntactic operations.","PeriodicalId":375022,"journal":{"name":"Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127728704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}