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

• Autore: Sánchez Liliana
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 242 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 498/.3235
• Soggetto topico: Quechua language - Grammar; Quechua language - Morphology; Quechua language - Syntax; Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The morphology and syntax of topic and focus
• ISBN: 9786612904530; 9781282904538; 1282904531; 9789027287526; 902728752X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960372703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 169.