Nominalization and case assignment in Quechua

In Quechua most embedded clauses are nominalized. In addition, dialects like Cuzco and Junin-Huanca have genitive subjects in both complement and relative clauses. Significantly, objects in these clauses cannot be marked with accusative case. Based on the approach to nominalizations suggested in Bor...

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Published inLingua Vol. 121; no. 7; pp. 1225 - 1251
Main Authors Cole, Peter, Hermon, Gabriella
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.05.2011
Subjects
Case assignment
Case Marking
Clauses
Dialects
Genitive subjects
Mixed categories
Nominalizations
Quechua
Quechua languages
Syntactic Structures
def
fut
Qu
progr
cause
Mixed categories
refl
Quechua languages
INT
DS
1OM
top
Nominalizations
subj
Genitive subjects
SS
val
ACC
af
BEN
poss
CIS
EVID
NOM
1
GEN
2
3
nomin
Case assignment
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ISSN0024-3841
1872-6135
DOI10.1016/j.lingua.2011.01.010

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Summary:In Quechua most embedded clauses are nominalized. In addition, dialects like Cuzco and Junin-Huanca have genitive subjects in both complement and relative clauses. Significantly, objects in these clauses cannot be marked with accusative case. Based on the approach to nominalizations suggested in Borsley and Kornfilt (2000), we derive the case marking pattern in nominalized clauses from the level at which nominalization applies in the derivation. We also analyze the genitive subjects in Quechua as licensed by C (as in Turkish) rather than by D (as suggested in recent work by Miyagawa for Japanese).
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ISSN:0024-3841
1872-6135
DOI:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.01.010