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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 66)
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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.
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Book Title: Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec
Editors: FELICIA LEE
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4308-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4300-0Published: 24 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8187-3Published: 31 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4308-6Published: 27 June 2006
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 274
Topics: Grammar