Directory of Malagasy Resources

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Malagasy, also known as Malgache, is a Western Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken in Madagascar, Comoros Islands and Réunion. It is most closely related to Ma'anyan language of south Borneo though influenced with loan words from Arabic, Bantu, English, French and Swahili.

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• Clause Structure of Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach

  http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/pearson/dissertation/Frontmatter.PDF
  Thesis exploring the clause structure and word order of Malagasy within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program and Kayne's Antisymetry Theory.

• Malagasy Clause Structure

  http://www.ratsimandresy.org/Hardcopy/M_Clause_St.pdf
  Research showing how Kayne's 1981 notion of binary branching supplimented with the process of incorporation makes acquisition of complex structures in languages like Malagasy more transparent.

• Malagasy Language

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy
  A brief description of the Malagasy language.

• The Malayo-Polynesian Origins of Malagasy

  http://www.ratsimandresy.org/Hardcopy/M-P_Origin.pdf
  Paper summarizing the current evidence supporting a Malayo-Polynesian origin for Malagasy with focus on previous literature, lack of use of tones in Malagasy, vocabulary, root words, functional categories and use of the passive voice.

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