Questions tagged [malay]
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Movement and Spell-Out of Heads
Generally, DPs need to move to certain positions or configurations in order to check for case features (among other things) and allow spell-out. For example, raising predicates raise the subject of an ...
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The Word for 'Ball' Pre-Colonisation
What I've found is that word-final /a/ in native Malay words and words up to the time of the Portuguese invasion (16-17th century) undergo reduction, e.g.:
/a/ → [ə] / __#
Mata (eye) - [matə]
Kura-...
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Passive Imperatives
The optional subject of an imperative is usually the second person pronoun. I've found something quite peculiar in Malay, where the utterance is an imperative and is passive but the subject is not the ...
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Can Malay or Indonesian ever have an /n/ followed by a /g/?
Malay and Indonesian are considered to be very phonetically spelled with the usually cited exception being that orthographic "e" can represent either /e/ or /ə/.
In both orthographies the sound /ŋ/ ...
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