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ROA 733-0505

Pied-piping with inversion in Copala Trique

George Aaron Broadwell <g.broadwell at albany.edu>
Michael Key <mkey at linguist.umass.edu>

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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.

Comments: Presented at the Linguistic Society of America/SSILA 2004
Keywords: syntax, interrogatives, pied-piping, inversion, alignment
Areas: Syntax
Type: Conference Handout

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