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Non-discourse-configurationality in Imbabura Kichwa

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This study investigates the syntactic structure of Imbabura Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in the Imbabura Province of Ecuador, with a focus on the seemingly free word order in grammatical functions and discourse-semantic functions (i.e., topic and focus). We first provide the data and overviews of the non-configurationality and non-discourse-configurationality of Imbabura Kichwa. Then, we demonstrate that the underlying syntactic structure of Imbabura Kichwa is built up hierarchically based on the agreement of focus enclitics with clause types and polarity. Finally, we argue that the non-configurationality and non-discourse-configurationality are the surface realization of the movement from the underlying structure to the daughter positions of a non-projective category S.

Source: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5687

Authors: Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig

Institutions: University of Notre Dame, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4396939132

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