Download or read book Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages written by Peter Austin and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores various problems in the syntax of Austronesian languages, which are found primarily in Malaysia and the Polynesian islands. Using the framework of constraint-based theories of syntax, contributors discuss the nature of these voice systems, the function of their verbal morphology, valence, verbal diathesis and transitivity in such languages, and the nature of their lexical categories. Each analysis is presented within the frameworks of lexical-functional grammar and head-driven phrase structure grammar.