Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-piping in Chol

In this squib, I present new data from possessive phrases in Chol (Mayan) and discuss the problem they present for standard analyses of pied-piping (see Heck 2004 and references cited therein). I argue that a theory of pied-piping in which features of a wh-word ''percolate'' up t...

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Main Author: Coon Burgess, Jessica Louise (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press, 2010-09-01T17:26:11Z.
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