Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec
San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement: verbs and clearly phrasal constituents behave identically in a number of syntactic cons...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
Series: | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement: verbs and clearly phrasal constituents behave identically in a number of syntactic constructions, and the ordering of verbal morphemes is problematic for standard assumptions of verbal head movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) Antisymmetry program. This work also examines consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, question formation; and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood |
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Physical Description: | XII, 274 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9781402043086 |