Tagalog
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in the Philippines. The data for this questionnaire was provided by a native speaker doing his graduate studies in Singapore.
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These are the general properties of Tagalog tough constructions:
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Ethnologue link WALS link
These are the general properties of Tagalog tough constructions:
- Has both expletive and moved variants of tough constructions - Main indicators: Voice markers, case morphology & word order.
- The direct object gap cannot be in a clause embedded under a convince-type verb. However, this test is inconclusive because my native speaker was unable to form wh-questions and relative clauses with more then one embedding as well.
- Other consultants are in the process of being consulted for a more definitive pattern.
- A relevant subject-oriented adverbial was not identified.
- Does not allows a dative PP between matrix predicate and embedded clause.
- Does not have verbal tough predicate constructions.
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