Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax: A Principles and Parameters Account: 136 (Sil International and the University of Texas at Arlington P) - Softcover

Black, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556710992 ISBN 13: 9781556710995

Publisher: SIL International, Global Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

The reader of Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax will find a careful syntactic analysis of this language, presented descriptively and with a theoretical analysis. In the three sections of the book, Cheryl Black provides a coherent, explanatory analysis for many facets of the syntax of this VSO language. Part I describes the morphology and syntax, as well as anaphoric relations. Parts II and III provide a theoretical analysis of the various syntactic constructions, utilizing a Principles and Parameters approach. Part II examines clause structure, including focus and topic constructions, interrogatives, negative constructions, and their interactions. Part III extends the analysis to phrase structures such as verbal and nominal phrases. The final chapter demonstrates that the special quantifier constructions that mark number in the language exhibit the same basic principles and structures as the rest of the grammar, showing that a small number of principles or constraints can determine the full grammar of a language. Quiegolani Zapotec is an Otomanguean language spoken in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This language family has received relatively little attention by syntacticians, making Dr. Black's work especially valuable. Theoretical linguists, as well as those mainly interested in description and typology, will find it of interest.

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About the Author:

Cheryl Black is a professor of theatre, Director of Graduate Studies and the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915 1922, as well as essays published in Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama; Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works; and Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meaning, and Effects. She is the president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and a fellow of the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: SIL International, Global Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1556710992
• ISBN 13: 9781556710995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366