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Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec [Repost]

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Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec [Repost]

Felicia Lee - Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec
Published: 2006-03-24 | ISBN: 1402043007, 1402081871 | PDF | 274 pages | 3 MB


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.