Tzotzil Clause Structure

✍ Scribed by Judith L. Aissen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. 1. V 3 3. 2. N 3 3. 3. A 5 3. 3. 1. Quantifiers 6 3. 3. 2. Existentials and Locatives 6 4. Minor Lexical Classes 7 4. 1. Clitics 7 4. 1. 1. Clause-proclitic 7 4. 1. 2. S-enclitic 8 4. 1. 3. V-enclitic 8 4. 1. 4. Clause-second 9 4. 2. Directionals 9 4. 3. Particles 11 5. Flagging 11 6. Word Order 12 7. Construction Survey 12 7. 1. Negation 12 13 7. 2. Questions 7. 3. Complement Clauses 14 16 7. 4. Motion cum Purpose 17 7. 5. Topics 7. 6. Prepredicate Position 18 19 Notes CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL SKETCH 20 20 1. Arcs vii Vlll T ABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 1. Sets of Grammatical Relations 22 1. 2. Stratum 24 Ergative and Absolutive 1. 3. 25 1. 4. 25 Formal Connections between Arcs 2. Sponsor and Erase 26 2. 1. Successors 26 2. 2. Replacers 28 2. 3. Self-Sponsor and Self-Erase 30 3. Ancestral Relations 31 4. Pair Networks 31 Resolution of Overlapping Arcs 32 5. 6. Coordinate Determination 33 7. Rules and Laws 35 8. Word Order 36 9. APG Versions of RG Laws 36 9. 1. Stratal Uniqueness Law 36 9. 2. Chomeur Law and Motivated Chomage Law 36 Relational Succession Law and Host Limitation Law 9. 3.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Grammatical Notes....Pages 1-19
Theoretical Sketch....Pages 20-39
Inflection and Agreement....Pages 40-60
Passive Clauses....Pages 61-76
Reflexive Clauses....Pages 77-86
Unaccusative Clauses....Pages 87-103
Ditransitive Clauses....Pages 104-125
Possessor Ascension....Pages 126-154
Topic, Focus and Copy Possessor Ascension....Pages 155-179
Surrogate Agreement....Pages 180-211
Clause Unions....Pages 212-251
Quantification and Initial Absolutives....Pages 252-271
Conclusion....Pages 272-274
Phonological Rules....Pages 275-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-290

✦ Subjects

Linguistics (general); Syntax; Ameri-Indian Languages