Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-307). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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This thesis explains why the prefix maha- in Malagasy (a Western Austronesian language) can have either an abilitive or causative meaning. It is not the case that there is a causative maha- prefix and an abilitive maha- prefix. There is, in fact, only one prefix which is both causative and abilitive. The apparent difference in meaning arises because of a difference in the emphasis placed on what I shall suggest are the two components of this prefix: stativity and causation. Whether maha- receives an abilitive or a causative reading depends on whether it attaches to what I term an "eventive" root or a "non-eventive" root. In the former case, it receives an abilitive reading, in the latter case, a causative reading.

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Inaug.-Diss.--Freie Universität, Berlin. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 7-13.

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This thesis explores the nature of voice in Malagasy, a language spoken in Madagascar. In chapter 2, it is claimed that different passives promote arguments from different structural positions. Evidence is provided for a particular position, [Spec, v2P], where a certain class of elements ("displaced themes") may be generated. One particular passive, the a-prefix, promotes to subject elements in this position. In chapter 3, arguments are presented in favour of a structural analysis of circumstantial topic (CT). CT morphology licenses all arguments of the verb. Due to a requirement that all clauses have a subject (the Extended Projection Principle), some element other than a DP structurally Case marked by the verb must raise to subject. Finally, chapter 4 addresses the left periphery in the Malagasy clause, in particular the structural positions of topic and focus.

La banque centrale de Madagascar recense aujourd'hui douze banques territoriales, sept établissements financiers et vingt-neuf institutions de microfinance. Madagascar a en tout deux cent vingt agences de banques sur tout le territoire. C'est ainsi un secteur qui est en pleine expansion. L'étude se portera sur l'analyse des opérations que les établissements de crédit établis à Madagascar effectuent, tout en s'attachant à ce qui se pratique déjà dans d'autres pays comme la France et que Madagascar suivrait probablement. De cette manière on étudiera à la fois les cas effectifs, c'est-à-dire la pratique bancaire malgache et en même temps on essaiera d'anticiper certains cas jugés nécessaires. Tout cela en faisant une étude approfondie de la situation actuelle de Madagascar afin de relever la spécificité et les lacunes du droit bancaire malgache et subsidiairement on parviendra à montrer dans une étude comparative l'écart qui se trouve entre le droit bancaire malgache et le droit bancaire des pays évolués à l'instar de la France. En effet, il n'est pas aisé de décrire une règle juridique sans réfléchir ne serait-ce qu'accessoirement, en faveur faveur de telle ou telle solution meilleure inspirée des enseignements du droit comparé ou d'une prise en considération plus réaliste des besoins de la pratique. A l'inverse, il est très difficile d'argumenter en faveur de telle ou telle réforme législative sans d'abord réaliser un état des lieux aussi exact que possible. Par conséquence cette thèse fait état d'un tableau le plus exhaustif possible des cas de responsabilité civile de banquier susceptible d'intéresser le droit malagasy. / The Central Bank of Madagascar identifies now twelve regional institutions, seven financial institutions ans twenty nine microfinance institutions. Madagascar has in all two hundred and twenty bank branches throughout the country. Thus this sector is booming. The study will emphasize the analysis of the operations that the established credit institutions in Madagascar carry out and at the same time it is related to what is being applied in other countries like France and Madagascar would likely follow. That way, we will study both the actual cases, that is to say, the Malagash Banking practice and meanwhile we will try to anticipate some cases considered necessary. All this will be implemented due to a thorough study of the current situation in Madagascar and in order to point out the specificity and the gaps of the Malagasy banking law. Moreover, we will manage to show in a comparative study the gap between the banking law in Madagascar and the banking law in the developed countries like France. Indeed, it is no easy to describe a legal rule without thinking, at least incidentally, in favor of no matter what the better solution inspired by the teaching of comparative law or a more realistic consideration of the needs of practice. Conversely, it is difficult to argue in favour of any legislative reform without first making a status report as accurate and complete as possible. Therefore, this thesis makes a point of mentioning a picture of the most possible detailed cases of the civil liability of the banker likely to interest Malagasy law.

This dissertation focuses on the astrological practices of the Zanadroandrena who dwell in a limited area, which they call 'Zanadroandrena land'. I defme these practices as a poiesis of life that shapes Zanadroandrena land as emergent moments in the world's perpetual becoming. In an introductory part I localise and identify the Zanadroandrena, giving shape to the field setting I encountered. I outline the background of their migration from North Merina and their present settlement that they perceive as born of a drama. Due to fruitful relations with the new land, however, the Zanadroandrena can turn this drama into one of growth and expansion, embodied in the present complex of villages, rice fields and tombs, changing this new settlement in Zanadroandrena land. This land and all its inhabitants carry specific destinies, due to astrological practices that identify the initiation of.any new activity or creation with the emergence of new life in the encounters of paths. Before I give concrete examples, I set out a theoretical perspective in which I defme Zanadroandrena astrology and explain their perception of the world. The ethnography should be read from that perspective. Zanadroandrena life, in which my fieldwork took shape through my movements along Zanadroandrena paths, stays central, and unites fieldwork, anthropological discourse and ethnography in one pair of eyes and one mouth. I argue that the Zanadroandrena see the world much in the same way as does the anthropologist Tim Ingold. I feel free to let them see and speak for each other although they have never met each other in reality. They meet in this dissertation that tries to restore ideas (that prevail in anthropological discourse), materials (that are excluded from anthropological discourse) and also the astrological destinies and their spatial arrangement along the four cardinal directions to the movements that gave rise to them. I explain that astrological practices give a particular shape to the land that we should consider as a living creature, as an entanglement of life-paths with different time-spans of all its inhabitants - trees, animals, sunlight, stones, plants, human beings, the winds and so on. It gets its particular shape through specific entanglements of all beings, that the Zanadroandrena have chosen to emerge in specific places and specific moments, giving them their destiny they carry in their movements. Crucial to my arguments is, that each destiny should also be seen as the result of encounters of life-paths, as emergent moments in the world's becoming, of which the Zanadroandrena consider the weather changes as important manifestations. Astrological practices are a vital part of Zanadroandrena traditions that I define as walking the paths of and with the ancestors, taking part in and creating specific streams of energy and material exchanges that give shape to the Zanadroandrena land. In my ethnography I explain how the Zanadroandrena conceive their living bodies as emerging from 'the lowlands in the low sky' through the metamorphosis of marshes into rice fields and the life-path of rice. I describe how Zanadroandrena generative forces arise through their entanglements with prairie land, grass, zebus and 'the highland in the far sky' in general. I also narrate the appearance of ancestral bodies through life-giving practices for the dead and finally, the emergence of the Zanadroandrena invisible body through practices at their territorial ritual centre, which they consider as the depot of all caring forces of the Zanadroandrena land.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 525-548.