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Clefts and anti-superiority in Moken
In: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) (2016)
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Clefts and anti-superiority in Moken
In: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) (2016)
Abstract: We describe an extraction asymmetry in Moken that presents apparent Anti-Superiority effects. We then show that this asymmetry is not rooted in Superiority at all. Evidence from island effects is used to demonstrate that the left-dislocation of wh-phrases is not the result of wh-movement as standardly conceived. Furthermore, the same Anti-Superiority effect obtains for non-wh-phrases and clefts. At the same time, standard Superiority effects in Moken do arise in certain environments. These observations lead to the conclusion that Anti-Superiority effects in Moken are not counterexamples to the universality of Superiority, but instead arise due to a constraint on crossed dependencies between arguments and non-argument positions.
Keyword: cleft; constituent question; Moken; superiority
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/105175
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