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INVERSELY ORDERED DPS IN NIUEAN

This paper examines substantive noun phrases in Niuean, a Polynesian language of the Tongic subgroup with VSO word order, isolating morphology, and an ergative case system. We will describe the allowable orderings of elements in the Niuean noun phrase, which include certain variations in the placement of the genitive possessor, then we will provide an analysis for these variations. There has been a large quantity of work, both recent and traditional, attempting to understand why certain orders of elements in clauses seem to be universally ruled out. To account for this, some linguists have posited that there is a universal order of elements and that allowable variations on this order are derived by various movement patterns (e.g. Cinque 1996, 1999, to appear, Belleti to appear, Rizzi 1997, to appear). This position allows for the theory to rule out ungrammatical orders by universal constraints on movement, rather than by typological stipulations. Our exploration of the Niuean DP takes place in light of this type of work. Given that Niuean DPs have a N-initial order, similarly to the V-initial order of clauses, our analysis will also address the relation between nominal structure and sentential structure, finding striking parallels between the two clause-types. We will also confirm a movement constraint observed by Rackowski and Travis (2000), which states that purely relational functional projections such as Agreement, which have no semantic content, are invisible to certain types of movement.