Ebook: The morphology and syntax of topic and focus : minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
Author: Liliana Sánchez
- Series: Linguistik aktuell Bd. 169
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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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 aRead more...