REMNANT RAISING AND VSO CLAUSALARCHITECTURE

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: LEE, FELICIA (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 66
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.

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 cons...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to San Lucas Quiaviná? Zapotec
• Background and Theoretical Assumptions
• The Syntax of Verb Raising in SLQZ: Arguments for VP Raising
• Further Consequences of VP-Remnant Movement: Some Common Negation Structures in SLQZ
• More on the Structure of the Left Periphery:The Syntax of Questions
• The Interaction of Tense and Aspect in San Lucas Quiaviná?Zapotec.