Remnant Raising And Vso Clausal Architecture:
A Case Study Of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec

Opis książki: Remnant Raising And Vso Clausal Architecture: A Case Study Of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec

San Lucas QuiavinA- 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 Kaynea (TM)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.