Lee Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture

A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4308-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 66, 274 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Felicia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Introduction to San Lucas Quiaviná? Zapotec.- Background and Theoretical Assumptions.- The Syntax of Verb Raising in SLQZ: Arguments for VP Raising.- Further Consequences of VP-Remnant Movement: Some Common Negation Structures in SLQZ.- More on the Structure of the Left Periphery:The Syntax of Questions.- The Interaction of Tense and Aspect in San Lucas Quiaviná?Zapotec.