Print version: Jensen, Joshua. Jarai clauses and noun phrases : syntactic structures in an Austronesian language. Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014] xi, 235 pages ; 24 cm. Pacific linguistics ; volume 645 ISBN 9781614517719
Revised version of author’s 2013 Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index
The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial verb constructions. Phenomena are carefully described, then analyzed within the Minimalist framework..