Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil
Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil
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Tzotzil 中的花哨管道、抽象一致性和功能投影
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1996
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Judith Aissen
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Judith Aissen
This paper investigates the role of (abstract) Agreement within functional projections in Tzotzil, as revealed through wh-Movement and constraints on Pied Piping. After establishing an s-structure condition which requires that elements Agree with C[+WH] to be interpreted as interrogative, we go on to consider how this requirement interacts with the internal structure of Tzotzil noun and prepositional phrases to permit internal elements access to interrogative interpretations. The discussion is extended to two further domains of fact: the licensing of focus interpretations and the licensing of subjunctive verbs in Tzotzil “free-choice” wh constructions. In both cases, abstract Agreement at s-structure within the Infl projection is the determining condition. The “free-choice” construction provides visible evidence that the abstract relations which form the basis for the overall analysis are indeed significant.