An edition of Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture (2006)
Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture
A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)
By Felicia Lee
Publish Date
May 5, 2006
Publisher
Springer
Language
eng
Pages
281
Description:
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.