With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw                  make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic                  analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of                  these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic                  interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the                  analysis of indefiniteness in terms of restricted free variables, they claim that                  some varieties of indefinites are better analyzed by taking restriction and                  saturation to be fundamental semantic operations.Chapters examine the general topic                  of modes of composition (including predicate restriction and syntactic versus                  semantic saturation), types of indefinite determiners in Maori, and object                  incorporation in Chamorro (including discussions of the extra object and restriction                  without saturation). The authors' goal is that the two case studies they offer, and                  their larger focus on modes of composition, will contribute to a broader account of                  the interaction of form, position, and semantic interpretation.

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