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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Liliana.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 169.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; v. 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quechua language--Grammar.

Quechua language.

Quechua language--Morphology.

Quechua language--Syntax.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

ix, 242 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

1.1 Peripheral domains

1.2 The syntax/morphology and the syntax/PF interfaces at the edges

2. An overview of Southern Quechua morphology and syntax

2.1 The Quechua family of languages: Geographical and demographic information

2.2 A brief outline of Quechua morphosyntax

2.3 Basic sentence structure and canonical word order

2.4 The internal structure of VP and TP

2.5 The CP- layer

2.6 Subject and object agreement

2.7 Licensing and identification of null subjects

2.8 Licensing and identification of null objects

3. Morphology, syntax, and informational structure in Quechua

3.1 Morphological markings on the left edge

3.2 Morphological markings and PF phenomena at the right edge

3.3 Minimalist assumptions

3.4 An Agree-based proposal

4. Agree, morphological syncretism, and peripheral constituents

4.1 Morphological syncretism and the ordering of functional categories

4.2 Agree and move

4.3 Morphology and the right periphery

5. Clausal analyses and the left and right peripheries of DPs

5.1 Strong person agreement in NP

5.2 Articulating the C and D-domains: Movement from the D-periphery to the C-periphery

5.3 Evidentiality and focus morphology inside DP: The limits of syncretic morphology

6. The limits of agree in the left-periphery

6.1 The syntactic distribution of wh-words

6.2 Polarity sensitive items

6.3 Agree with non-veridicality operators

6.4 Scope relations and intervention effects

7. The limits of syncretism

7.1 The typology of wh-movement

7.2 Wh-fronting in main and subordinate clauses in Southern Quechua

7.3 Multiple wh-questions.

8. The left and the right periphery in narrative discourse

8.1 Evidential/focus markers and the left periphery

8.2 Continuity of topics and right detached material

8.2 Morphology, intonational patterns, and word order

9. Concluding remarks

References

Additional references

Appendix A

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612904530

9781282904538

1282904531

9789027287526

902728752X

OCLC:

697620897