Demonstratives, Reinforcers, and Movement to the Right: Phonological Displacement in Mandar

Abstract

This paper investigates the nature of displacement by looking into a process that shifts DP-internal locative adverbs to the right in Mandar (Austronesian, Indonesian). This process ignores island constraints and displays a range of restrictions that cannot be stated in the terminology of the syntax. I argue that its properties fall into place when it is viewed as an instance of movement in phonology, operating over representations and proceeding along paths that are defined in exclusively surface-oriented prosodic terms.