Eri Kurniawan, William D. Davies
The topic of finiteness is rarely broached in the closely related Indonesiantype languages, in which verbs have no morphological tense marking, nouns have no overt case marking, and there is only limited morphological agreement. As they are the typical morphological manifestations, the relevance of finiteness is difficult to discern. Sundanese is no exception to this. There is evidence, however, that finiteness is critical to the licensing of subjects in Sundanese. What distinguishes Sundanese from many other languages is that finiteness is covert rather than being overtly marked, just as has been proposed for Chinese, Lao, Slave, and others. © 2015 by University of Hawai‘i Press.
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia; University Of Iowa, United States
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