Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture

A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec

von Felicia Lee

278 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
• ISBN: 9781402081873
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2008
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• Verlag: Springer Netherland