Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec |
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| Author:
| Lee, Felicia |
| Series title: | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4020-8187-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Publisher: | Springer
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $136.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.