The morphology and syntax of topic and focus : minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery /
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| Author / Creator: | Sánchez, Liliana. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010. |
| Description: | ix, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; v. 169 Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 169. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8292057 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027255525 9027255520 9789027287526 902728752X |