The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

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. Cover ......Page 1 The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Dedication page......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Abbreviations......Page 14 1. Introduction......Page 16 2. An overview of Southern Quechua morphology and syntax......Page 24 3. Morphology, syntax, and informational structure in Quechua......Page 44 4. Agree, morphological syncretism, and peripheral constituents......Page 68 5. Clausal analyses and the left and right peripheries of DPs......Page 114 6. The limits of agree in the left-periphery......Page 148 7. The limits of syncretism......Page 168 8. The left and the right periphery in narrative discourse......Page 190 9. Concluding remarks......Page 244 References......Page 245 Appendix A......Page 254 Index......Page 256 The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 258 Presents an analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. This book 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. Liliana Sánchez. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.