Bibliographic citations
Martel, V., (2024). La morfosintaxis de la Persona y Número en las transiciones de la concordancia verbal del quechua ayacuchano [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27939
Martel, V., La morfosintaxis de la Persona y Número en las transiciones de la concordancia verbal del quechua ayacuchano []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27939
@phdthesis{renati/532963,
title = "La morfosintaxis de la Persona y Número en las transiciones de la concordancia verbal del quechua ayacuchano",
author = "Martel Paredes, Víctor Arturo",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2024"
}
The contribution of this research is to offer a new description and explanation of verbal agreement in Person transitions in Ayacucho Quechua, based on the redefinition of –yki and -wa as pronominal morphemes, and –su as an inverse marker, when traditionally in Quechua studies they are conceived of as suffixes. The research takes as its theoretical basis the postulates of generative syntax, and in particular minimalism (Chomsky, 1995) and its approach to Agreement. Likewise, the analysis proposed here assumes that there is a component that operates after the syntax, in which morphological readjustment operations are applied. For this reason, I will also rely on the assumptions of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993) and Feature Geometry (Harley & Ritter, 2002) for explanation involving the Person Hierarchy. In the analysis, first of all, contrary to many researchers who affirm that –wa, -yki and -su are inflectional suffixes (Parker, 1969; Cerrón Palomino, 1987a, among others), I maintain that the first two are pronominal morphemes, generated within the Determiner Phrase (hereinafter DP) of the first and second person Object, and which move to the head v of the verbal Phrase (vP); and that the marker –su in -su-nki is an inverse marker. As for the position of exponents of Person in verbal inflection, I will maintain that these obey post-syntactic realizations, sensitive to the Person Hierarchy, so the pronominal Second person morpheme is realized in the Actor head, where the exponent of Subject is situated. On the other hand, the Number head establishes an agreement relationship with both the Agent DP and the pronominal Object morpheme, which will give expected results in cases in which one participant has the feature Plural and the other does not, such as 1SG > 2PL; 1SG > 3PL; 1PL > 2G; 1PL > 3SG; 2PL > 1SG; 2SG > 1PL; 2SG > 3PL; 2PL > 3SG; 3SG > 1PL; 3PL > 1SG; 3SG > 2PL; 3SG > 2PL; 3SG > 3PL. Unexpected results will be observed, meanwhile, incases where the two participants of the speech act, both Speaker and Addressee, have the feature Plural, as in the cases of 1PL>2PL, 2PL>1PL. Here, the most generic number exponent –ku emerges, and, more surprisingly still, in the case of 3PL > 2SG the Plural agreement is realized as the specific exponent –chik, with the value Addressee, despite the Second Person participant having the value Singular.
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