Malagasy Western Polynesian Malayo Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

Malagasy, also known as Malgache, is a Western Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken in Madagascar, Comoros Islands and Réunion. It is most closely related to Ma'anyan language of south Borneo though influenced with loan words from Arabic, Bantu, English, French and Swahili.

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• - Thesis exploring the clause structure and word order of Malagasy within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program and Kayne's Antisymetry Theory.
  
• - A glossary of Malagasy words.
  
• - Extensive bibliography of research on Malagasy language and linguistics.
  
• - Research showing how Kayne's 1981 notion of binary branching supplimented with the process of incorporation makes acquisition of complex structures in languages like Malagasy more transparent.
  
• - Characterization of a syntactic relation in Malagasy.
  
• - Quantative research on the distribution of non-active verbs in Malagasy indicating that the voicing system has a very different role in the grammars of Western Austronesian and Western European languages.
  
• - Paper summarizing the current evidence supporting a Malayo-Polynesian origin for Malagasy with focus on previous literature, lack of use of tones in Malagasy, vocabulary, root words, functional categories and use of the passive voice.
  
• - Bibliography of English, French and other language references for the Malagasy language including many dictionaries.
  
• - A brief description of the Malagasy language.
  
• - Table of basic Malagasy phrases and translations into French, Parisian French, English and Japanese.
  
  

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