The morphology and syntax of topic and focus : minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
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The morphology and syntax of topic and focus : minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
（Linguistik aktuell, 169）
John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010
- : hbk
Available at 21 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. Chapter 1. Introduction: Peripheral domains and agreement in Southern Quechua
- 4. Chapter 2. An overview of Southern Quechua morphology and syntax
- 5. Chapter 3. Morphology, syntax, and informational structure in Quechua
- 6. Chapter 4. Agree, morphological syncretism, and peripheral constituents
- 7. Chapter 5. Clausal analyses and the left and right peripheries of DPs
- 8. Chapter 6. The limits of agree in the left-periphery: wh-words, polarity items, and intervention effects
- 9. Chapter 7. The limits of syncretism: wh-movement
- 10. Chapter 8. The left and the right periphery in narrative discourse
- 11. Chapter 9. Concluding remarks
- 12. Index
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