| ROA: | 733 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pied-piping with inversion in Copala Trique |
| Authors: | George Aaron Broadwell, Michael Key |
| Comment: | Presented at the Linguistic Society of America/SSILA 2004 |
| Length: | 18 |
| Abstract: | Copala Trique is an Otomanguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is normally head-initial, but many phrases show head-final order in interrogative contexts. For example 'with NP' is the normal declarative order, but 'what with' is the required interrogative order. This paper treates the word-order alternation as the result of competition between an alignment constraint for interrogatives (Wh-Left) and the constraints that position the head of a phrase before other elements in the phrase. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Syntax |
| Article: | Version 1 |