Adjectival passives and the structure of VP in Tagalog

VOS as predicate fronting in Chol

“…In recent work, Sabbagh (2006) argues that the structures in (59) and (60) are not right for the Austronesian language Tagalog. Sabbagh presents compelling evidence that APs in Tagalog are unaccusative and not unergative as they are in languages like Italian and English.…”

“…Sabbagh presents compelling evidence that APs in Tagalog are unaccusative and not unergative as they are in languages like Italian and English. Sabbagh (2006) does not abandon the UTAH, but rather suggests that languages have different ways of satisfying it. He proposes the smaller structures below for verbal and adjectival predicates in Tagalog.…”

La sintaxis de la predicación no verbal en maya yucateco

“…Coon (2014) proposes something similar that avoids these problems, building on ideas in Baker (2003) and Sabbagh (2011). Baker (2003 claims that the head F in (42b) is Pred and that it is universally required in non-verbal predications because non-verbal categories are unable to license an argument without it.…”

“…Instead, all categories can take an argument directly and thus all types of lexical categories can directly instantiate Pred. Sabbagh's (2011) claim is based on data from Austronesian languages and Coon (2014) applies it to Ch'ol Mayan. The proposed representations for the Ch'ol examples in (41) are shown in (42).…”