Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture von Felicia Lee | A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec | ISBN 9781402043086

Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture

A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec

von Felicia Lee
Buchcover Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture | Felicia Lee | EAN 9781402043086 | ISBN 1-4020-4308-2 | ISBN 978-1-4020-4308-6
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Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture

A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec

von Felicia Lee

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.