Austronesian languages prefer agent-first orders: Some notes on Riesberg et al. (2019)

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16 septembre 2022

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Martin Haspelmath, « Austronesian languages prefer agent-first orders: Some notes on Riesberg et al. (2019) », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nswq

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In their 2019 paper “How universal is agent-first?”, Sonja Riesberg, Kurt Malcher and Nikolaus Himmelmann argue that western Austronesian languages provide evidence for a general “agent-first” preference, although they often have a neutral order in which the patient (or another type of “undergoer”) unexpectedly precedes the agent. They examine 51 languages of the Philippines and Indonesia/Malaysia, and they find that seven of them show a gap that may be explained by an “agent-first” force (g...

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