The morphology and syntax of topic and focus : minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery /

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This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sánchez, Liliana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 169.
Subjects:
Quechua language > Grammar.
Quechua language > Morphology.
Quechua language > Syntax.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Quechua (Langue) > Grammaire.
Quechua (Langue) > Morphologie.
Quechua (Langue) > Syntaxe.
Minimalisme (Linguistique)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Quechua language > Grammar
Quechua language > Morphology
Quechua language > Syntax
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: peripheral domains and agreement in Southern Quechua
  • An overview of Southern Quechua morphology and syntax
  • Morphology, syntax, and informational structure in Quechua
  • Agree, morphological syncretism, and peripheral constituents
  • Clausal analyses and left and right peripheries of DPs
  • The limits of agree in the left-periphery: wh-words, polarity items, and intervention effects
  • The limits of syncretism: wh-movement
  • The left and right right periphery in narrative discourse
  • Concluding remarks

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