Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quechua / Edition 1

by C. Lefebvre, P.C. Muysken

Overview

Our book on nominalizations in Quechua summarizes the work we have carried out on. this language over the last ten years. We are happy to offer it as a contribution to linguistic theory. For their interest, friendship and patience, we thank the numerous Quechua speakers who gave us access to their language, making it possible for us to reach an understanding of it which led us to writing this book. More specifically we would like to thank our Cuzco informants who contributed directly in the estab- lishment of the data base on which our analyses are built: Angelica and Justo Leon Baca, Evaristo Vasquez, Felix Mamani, Jose Rodriguez, Lita Cancino Chac6n, Mercedes Ordonez Calder6n, Carlos Quispe Centeno. We want to thank students and colleagues in Amherst, Amsterdam, Cam- bridge, Lima, Montreal, and Tilburg for fruitful discussions on several of the issues raised in this book; particularly, Hans den Besten, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Dan Finer, Anneke Groos, Ken Hale, Simon van de Kerke, Jaklin Kornfilt, James Pustejovsky, Felix Quesada, Henk van Riemsdijk, Tom Roeper, Gustavo Solis, Edwin Williams and the students of the seminar on nominalizations (UQAM, Fall 1983).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556080500
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/31/1988
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , #11
Edition description:	1988
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 1. Towards a Theory of Mixed Categories.- 2. Overview of the Structure of Quechua.- 2: Syntactic Categories and Their Projections.- 1. Nominalized Clauses versus Main Clauses.- 2. Nominalizations and the Syntactic Categories of Quechua.- 3. Transcategorial Constructions.- 4. Summary.- 3: Morphology and Syntax.- 1. Quechua Nominalizations and Their Morphology.- 2. Affixes versus Clitics.- 3. The Lexical Entry and Its Constitution.- 4. The Lexicon and Syntax.- 5. Summary.- 4: Case.- 1. Case as an X? Phenomenon.- 2. Types of Case Assignment.- 3. Structural Case Assignment.- 4. Case Marking in Prepositional Phrases, Adjectival Phrases and Noun Phrases.- 5. The Case Filter.- 6. Summary.- 5: Move Case.- 1. Extraction Facts in Quechua.- 2. Raising as Move CASE.- 3. Wh-movement as Move CASE.- 4. Move CASE and the Non-Configurational Properties of Quechua.- 5. Summary.- 6: Complementation Versus Relativization.- 1. The Structure of Relative Clauses.- 2. -q Relatives and Other -q Clauses.- 3. Non-Subject Relative Clauses.- 4. Free Relatives.- 5. Summary.- 7: Nominalized Clauses as Propositions.- 1. Clause Typology.- 2. Propositionality and AUX.- 3. Types of Tense in Quechua.- 4. Clauses without INFL: Restructuring Verbs.- 5. Predication and the Complements of Perception Verbs.- 6. Typology of Clauses Revisited.- 7. Summary.- 8: Module Interaction and Category Theory.- 8.1. Listing the Properties of Quechua.- 8.2. Relating these Properties to Each Other: Module Interaction.- General References.- Index of Names.