Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture
Download or Read eBook Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture PDF written by Felicia Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Felicia Lee |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2006-06-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781402043086 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1402043082 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture by : Felicia Lee
Book excerpt: 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. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
