| Preface and acknowledgments | 7 |
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| List of figures | 12 |
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| List of tables | 13 |
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| List of glossing conventions | 14 |
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| 1 Introduction to the Jarai language | 15 |
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| 1.1 Linguistic affiliation | 16 |
| 1.2 Linguistic research on Jarai and Jarai texts | 18 |
| 1.3 The literature and my research | 20 |
| 1.4 Data: methodology and population | 20 |
| 1.5 Jarai phonology and orthography | 22 |
| 1.5.1 Inventory of phonemes | 22 |
| 1.5.2 Orthography | 26 |
| 1.5.3 Word-level stress | 27 |
| 1.5.4 Data citation practices | 28 |
| 1.6 Overview of Jarai morphology and syntax | 28 |
| 1.6.1 Affixal morphology | 28 |
| 1.6.2 Pronominal system | 31 |
| 1.6.3 Syntax | 31 |
| 1.7 Overview of following chapters | 33 |
| 1.7.1 The noun phrase | 33 |
| 1.7.2 The clause | 34 |
| 1.8 Theoretical approach | 35 |
| 2 Noun phrases | 36 |
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| 2.1 Some background assumptions | 36 |
| 2.2 Demonstratives | 37 |
| 2.3 Numerals, classifiers, and number marking | 43 |
| 2.3.1 Overview of numerals and classifiers | 44 |
| 2.3.2 Phrase structure | 47 |
| 2.3.3 Jarai nouns and reference to kinds | 54 |
| 2.4 Possessor DPs | 58 |
| 2.5 Adjective phrases | 64 |
| 2.6 Interim summary: the DP so far | 68 |
| 2.7 Quantifiers and partitives | 69 |
| 2.7.1 Cardinal quantifiers | 70 |
| 2.7.2 Proportional quantifiers | 75 |
| 2.8 DP wrap-up | 80 |
| 3 Operator domain | 82 |
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| 3.1 Projections in the operator domain | 82 |
| 3.1.1 Finite complement clauses | 82 |
| 3.1.2 Non-finite complement clauses | 91 |
| 3.1.3 Interrogative clauses | 106 |
| 3.2 Focus movement | 120 |
| 3.3 Pseudocleft wh-questions | 129 |
| 3.3.1 In questions with po the remainder is a DP | 132 |
| 3.3.2 Questions containing po are copular | 139 |
| 3.3.3 The structure of pseudocleft questions | 141 |
| 4 Inflectional domain | 151 |
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| 4.1 Inflectional elements | 151 |
| 4.2 Ordering and phrase structural position | 152 |
| 4.3 Excursus: (missing) tense and aspect | 157 |
| 4.3.1 lajh ‘already’ | 157 |
| 4.3.2 hi?, telicity particle | 162 |
| 4.4 Subject position | 167 |
| 5 Theta domain | 170 |
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| 5.1 Splitting up the verb: V and v | 170 |
| 5.2 Unaccusatives | 179 |
| 5.3 Verb phrase–internal subjects | 182 |
| 5.4 Another split: inner aspect | 185 |
| 5.5 Asymmetries below the verb | 188 |
| 5.5.1 Direct object–indirect object asymmetry | 188 |
| 5.5.2 Goal–source asymmetry | 193 |
| 5.6 Serial verb constructions | 198 |
| 5.6.1 Definition and common properties | 199 |
| 5.6.2 Theoretical approaches to SVCs | 200 |
| 5.6.3 Serial verbs in Jarai | 206 |
| 6 Conclusion | 232 |
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| 6.1 Overview | 232 |
| 6.2 Prospects | 233 |
| A Phoneme inventories in previous work | 235 |
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| A.1 Consonants | 235 |
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| A.2 Vowels | 236 |
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| References | 237 |
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| Index | 246 |
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