Abstract Malagasy is a language with non-culminating accomplishments. There is, however, a specific prefix (maha-), which appears to entail culmination. Moreover, verbs prefixed with maha- display a range of interpretations: causative, abilitive, ‘manage to’, and unintentionality. This paper accounts for these two aspects of this prefix with a unified semantic analysis. In particular, maha- encodes double prevention. The double prevention configuration is associated with a circumstantial modal base, which leads to culminating readings in the past and future, but not the present tense. The embedding of double prevention in a force-theoretic framework leads to a more fine-grained theory of causation, which the Malagasy data show to have empirical relevance.

中文翻译：

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马达加斯加人的最终成就

摘要马达加斯加语是一门无造accomplish的语言。但是，有一个特定的前缀（maha-），看起来像是高潮。此外，以maha-开头的动词还具有多种解释：成因，动词，“ manage to”和无意。本文通过统一的语义分析来说明此前缀的这两个方面。特别是，maha-编码双重预防。双重预防配置与环境情态基础相关联，这导致过去和将来的阅读达到顶点，但现在时态却没有。双重预防在力理论框架中的嵌入导致更细粒度的因果关系理论，马达加斯加的数据显示出这种关系具有经验意义。