Talk’s title: Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito (joint work with Brianna Wilson, UChicago)
Abstract:
In this talk, we present data from split NP constructions in the Peruvian language Iquito. Noun phrases containing determiners exhibit a range of discontinuity effects when embedded under nouns and prepositions. Complex cases involving recursive possessors give rise to apparent non-constituent movement. We show that the complex array of patterns we find can be accounted for in a distributed deletion approach to split constructions (Fanselow & Ćavar 2002), where Copy Deletion applies cyclically in the derivation. We also discuss determiner splits at the clause-level and show that movement to the so-called 'irrealis position' (Beier et al. 2011) shows even more radical discontinuity, as predicted by our analysis.
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