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.

1 Modes of Composition 1 1.1 The Calculus of Saturation 2 1.2 Predicate Restriction 4 1.3 Syntactic versus Semantic Saturation 6 1.4 Saturation at the Event Level 11 1.5 Scope Constraints 13 1.6 The Property Theory of Indefinites 14 1.7 Summary 18 2 Indefinites in Maori 21 2.1 A Dash of Maori Grammar 23 2.2 The Syntax of He and Tetahi 26 2.3 The Semantic Similarity of He and Tetahi 30 2.4 Some Semantic Contrasts 40 2.5 Our Account 45 2.6 Two Further Semantic Contrasts 55 2.7 A Dash of Pragmatics 65 2.8 Conclusion 69 3 Object Incorporation in Chamorro 75 3.1 A Dash of Chamorro Grammar 77 3.2 Incorporation 81 3.3 The Incorporated Object Is Semantically Incomplete 85 3.4 The Extra Object 88 3.5 The Extra Object Is a Semantic Argument 94 3.6 Our Account 107 3.7 Restriction without Saturation 118 3.8 Conclusion 125 Appendix A. The Syntax of Chamorro Incorporation 131 A.1 Previous Approaches 131 A.2 Some Preliminary Results 134 A.3 Some More Conclusive Results 141 A.4 The Attachment Site of the Extra Object 146 Appendix B. Maori and Chamorro 149 Notes 153 References 163 Index 171

William A. Ladusaw is Professor of Linguistics and Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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