The morphology and syntax of topic and focus: minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
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Main Author: Sánchez, Liliana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2010
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 169
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238) and index
The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 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. Clausal analyses and the left and right peripheries of DPs; 6. The limits of agree in the left-periphery; 7. The limits of syncretism; 8. The left and the right periphery in narrative discourse; 9. Concluding remarks; References; Appendix A.
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 charact
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
ISBN:9027255520
902728752X
9789027255525
9789027287526

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