Sandra Chung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Chung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Chung |
| SIGNATURE | CHUNG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9013-3960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
On the Subject of two Passives in Indonesian
I am grateful to Arief Budiman, Ann Soeleiman, Wendarto Atmadja, Johnny Basuki, and Ibrahim Hasan for providing native speakers judgements on the Indonesian sentences. An earlier version of this paper was read at UCSD, and I have incorporated some of the comments and suggestions of the audience. This work was supported in part by the Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.
On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan
VOS Languages: Some of Their Properties
Languages in which clauses have Verb Object Subject as their dominant word order are called VOS languages . Such languages, which are typologically rare, raise a set of challenging issues for syntactic theory. Kayne (1995) proposed that VOS clauses are derived from SVO clauses by movement. This chapter surveys the types of arguments that have been brought to bear on movement analyses of VOS clauses, drawing on evidence from VOS languages as well …
The Austronesian languages by Robert Blust
We review The Austronesian languages , by Robert Blust, with particular attention to how some of Blust's generalizations about the phonology and morphology of Austronesian languages play out in Malagasy and Chamorro
The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, wh -dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as wh-agreement : verbs along the path of the wh -dependency are inflected for the grammatical relation of the gap and the intermediate landing sites of the filler. Two on-line comprehension experiments conducted in the Northern Mariana Islands reveal that the morphological paradigm of wh -agreement af…
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Sluicing and the Lexicon: The Point of No Return
Syntactic Identity in Sluicing: How Much and Why
Research on sluicing has not yet reached consensus on whether the identity condition on this ellipsis construction is syntactic or semantic. Evidence from Chamorro and English is presented that over and above semantic identity, sluicing requires limited syntactic identity. The limited syntactic identity condition involves argument structure on the one hand and abstract Case on the other. This approach is shown to account for a range of novel and …
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Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro
Many years of linguistic research have led to no consensus on the issue of whether every language has nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This article investigates the issue from the perspective of Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands. Chamorro has been claimed to have an unusual lexical category system consisting of just two language-particular categories. Evidence is presented here that (i) the language does in fact have nouns, v…
Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro
Since Seiter 1975, it has been known that constituent questions in many of the verb-initial Austronesian languages are headless-relative clefts (henceforth, HRCs)— complex sentences in which the interrogative phrase serves as a nonverbal predicate
Indonesian clause structure from an Austronesian perspective
Chamorro evidence for compositional asymmetry
Restructuring and verb-initial order in chamorro
The Austronesian language Chamorro has a restructuring construction in which the embedded clause-like constituent looks like a finite realis clause. Following Bhatt's (2002) minimalist analysis of Hindi-Urdu, I argue that Chamorro restructuring permits long-distance Agree but not long-distance licensing of objective Case. I then bring the word order of restructuring to bear on the larger issue of how verb-initial order is derived. Along the way, …
The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro
In the modular linguistic theory assumed by many generative linguists, phonology and syntax are interconnected but fundamentally independent components of grammar. The effects of syntax on phonology are mediated by prosodic structure, a representation of prosodic constituents calculated from syntactic structure but not isomorphic to it. Within this overall architecture, I investigate the placement of weak pronouns in the Austronesian language Cha…
The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro
This text shows that two distinct forms of agreement must be recognized in linguistic theory. Sandra Chung demonstrates that in addition to what she calls Feature Compatibility - the relation that lies behind morphological agreement, such as subject-verb agreement in English - there is an abstract syntactic relation, the Associate relation, which holds between categories in a range of syntactic constructions. The primary source of evidence is Cha…
On Reference to Kinds in Indonesian
The Reed Reference Grammar of Maori
Sluicing and logical form
A Festschrift for William F. Shipley
Functional heads and proper government in Chamorro
VP's and verb movement in Chamorro
Identifiability and Null Objects in Chamorro
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 116-130
The ECP and government in Chamorro
Transderivational Relationships in Chamorro Phonology
The Saipan dialect of Chamorro displays certain transderivational relationships that hold optionally between complex words and the non-complex forms from which they are derived. These relationships are examined, and it is argued that phonological theory must either allow optionally-cyclic rule application, or else recognize a class of transderivational phenomena for which the cycle cannot account
Sluicing and logical form
Syntactic Identity in Sluicing: How Much and Why
Research on sluicing has not yet reached consensus on whether the identity condition on this ellipsis construction is syntactic or semantic. Evidence from Chamorro and English is presented that over and above semantic identity, sluicing requires limited syntactic identity. The limited syntactic identity condition involves argument structure on the one hand and abstract Case on the other. This approach is shown to account for a range of novel and …
The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro
In the modular linguistic theory assumed by many generative linguists, phonology and syntax are interconnected but fundamentally independent components of grammar. The effects of syntax on phonology are mediated by prosodic structure, a representation of prosodic constituents calculated from syntactic structure but not isomorphic to it. Within this overall architecture, I investigate the placement of weak pronouns in the Austronesian language Cha…
Restructuring and verb-initial order in chamorro
The Austronesian language Chamorro has a restructuring construction in which the embedded clause-like constituent looks like a finite realis clause. Following Bhatt's (2002) minimalist analysis of Hindi-Urdu, I argue that Chamorro restructuring permits long-distance Agree but not long-distance licensing of objective Case. I then bring the word order of restructuring to bear on the larger issue of how verb-initial order is derived. Along the way, …
Transderivational Relationships in Chamorro Phonology
The Saipan dialect of Chamorro displays certain transderivational relationships that hold optionally between complex words and the non-complex forms from which they are derived. These relationships are examined, and it is argued that phonological theory must either allow optionally-cyclic rule application, or else recognize a class of transderivational phenomena for which the cycle cannot account
Indonesian clause structure from an Austronesian perspective
VP's and verb movement in Chamorro
The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, wh -dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as wh-agreement : verbs along the path of the wh -dependency are inflected for the grammatical relation of the gap and the intermediate landing sites of the filler. Two on-line comprehension experiments conducted in the Northern Mariana Islands reveal that the morphological paradigm of wh -agreement af…
Functional heads and proper government in Chamorro
On Reference to Kinds in Indonesian
Chamorro evidence for compositional asymmetry
The ECP and government in Chamorro
The Austronesian languages by Robert Blust
We review The Austronesian languages , by Robert Blust, with particular attention to how some of Blust's generalizations about the phonology and morphology of Austronesian languages play out in Malagasy and Chamorro
The Syntax of Nominalizations in Polynesian
Sandra Chung, The Syntax of Nominalizations in Polynesian, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 1/2, Papers of the First International Conference on Comparative Austronesian Linguistics, 1974: Oceanic (Summer - Winter, 1973), pp. 641-686
"Remarks on Pablo Tac's "La Lingua degli Indi Luiseños
Woleaian Reference Grammar
The History of Raising and Relativization in Polynesian
Some Polynesian languages have accusative case systems, while others have ergative systems. Chung 1978 has argued that the Proto-Polynesian case system was accusative, and that the case systems of the ergative languages are the result of a PASSIVE-TO-ERGATIVE re-analysis, which re-interpreted passive structures as superficially active and transitive. We argue here that the passive-to-ergative re-analysis accounts historically for the unexpected p…
Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian
The ECP and government in Chamorro
Transderivational Relationships in Chamorro Phonology
The Saipan dialect of Chamorro displays certain transderivational relationships that hold optionally between complex words and the non-complex forms from which they are derived. These relationships are examined, and it is argued that phonological theory must either allow optionally-cyclic rule application, or else recognize a class of transderivational phenomena for which the cycle cannot account
Identifiability and Null Objects in Chamorro
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 116-130
VP's and verb movement in Chamorro
Functional heads and proper government in Chamorro
A Festschrift for William F. Shipley
Sluicing and logical form
The Reed Reference Grammar of Maori
The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro
This text shows that two distinct forms of agreement must be recognized in linguistic theory. Sandra Chung demonstrates that in addition to what she calls Feature Compatibility - the relation that lies behind morphological agreement, such as subject-verb agreement in English - there is an abstract syntactic relation, the Associate relation, which holds between categories in a range of syntactic constructions. The primary source of evidence is Cha…
On Reference to Kinds in Indonesian
The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro
In the modular linguistic theory assumed by many generative linguists, phonology and syntax are interconnected but fundamentally independent components of grammar. The effects of syntax on phonology are mediated by prosodic structure, a representation of prosodic constituents calculated from syntactic structure but not isomorphic to it. Within this overall architecture, I investigate the placement of weak pronouns in the Austronesian language Cha…
Restructuring and verb-initial order in chamorro
The Austronesian language Chamorro has a restructuring construction in which the embedded clause-like constituent looks like a finite realis clause. Following Bhatt's (2002) minimalist analysis of Hindi-Urdu, I argue that Chamorro restructuring permits long-distance Agree but not long-distance licensing of objective Case. I then bring the word order of restructuring to bear on the larger issue of how verb-initial order is derived. Along the way, …
Chamorro evidence for compositional asymmetry
Indonesian clause structure from an Austronesian perspective
Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro
Since Seiter 1975, it has been known that constituent questions in many of the verb-initial Austronesian languages are headless-relative clefts (henceforth, HRCs)— complex sentences in which the interrogative phrase serves as a nonverbal predicate
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Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro
Many years of linguistic research have led to no consensus on the issue of whether every language has nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This article investigates the issue from the perspective of Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands. Chamorro has been claimed to have an unusual lexical category system consisting of just two language-particular categories. Evidence is presented here that (i) the language does in fact have nouns, v…
Syntactic Identity in Sluicing: How Much and Why
Research on sluicing has not yet reached consensus on whether the identity condition on this ellipsis construction is syntactic or semantic. Evidence from Chamorro and English is presented that over and above semantic identity, sluicing requires limited syntactic identity. The limited syntactic identity condition involves argument structure on the one hand and abstract Case on the other. This approach is shown to account for a range of novel and …
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Sluicing and the Lexicon: The Point of No Return
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