Word order and definiteness in Tagalog∗
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b. [akoi]pivot nom.1sg [ang nom s〈um〉ukat perf.av.measure ___i ng gen kabilugan circumference ng gen ulo head ni gen John]cle f t John I’m the one that measured the circumference of John’s head. ∗With thanks to Geraldine Baniqued, Johann Carlos Sulit Barcena, Luvee Hazel Calventas-Aquino, Jo Castro, Joe-Bren Consuelo, Karlo Jorge Dizon, Valerie Gamao, Edward Ross, and Catherine Tadina for their time and generosity as consultants. Thanks to Cleo Condoravdi, Christopher Potts, Dylan Bumford, Ivano Caponigro, Paul Kiparsky, Kai von Fintel and audiences at UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle (2015) and Stanford SemPrag (2015, 2016) for comments on this work.
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