The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus

Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-272-5552-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 169, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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 have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez, Liliana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Peripheral domains and agreement in Southern Quechua
2. An overview of Southern Quechua morphology and syntax
3. Morphology, syntax and informational structure in Quechua
4. Agree, morphological syncretism and peripheral constituents
5. Peripheral domains in DPs
6. The limits of agree in the left-periphery: Wh-words, polarity items, and intervention effects.
7. The limits of syncretism: Wh-movement
8. The left and the right periphery in discourse
9. Concluding remarks

Index