Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-piping in Chol
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Author(s)
Coon Burgess, Jessica Louise
Alternative Title
INTERROGATIVE POSSESSORS AND THE PROBLEM WITH PIED-PIPING IN CHOL
Date Issued
January 2009
Journal
Linguistic Inquiry
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MIT Press
Citation
Coon, Jessica. “Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-Piping in Chol.” Linguistic Inquiry 40.1 (2009): 165-175. © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Abstract
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 to a higher maximal projection is unable to straightforwardly
account for the ordering facts found in interrogative possessive constructions
in Chol (also described for Tzotzil (Aissen 1996) and San
Dionicio Zapotec (Broadwell 2001)). I will show that in certain derivations,
feature percolation would have to both occur and not occur
from the same wh-word at different stages in a single derivation. A
derivation in which percolation happens consistently at each step
results in ungrammaticality.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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