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(3.60) IP<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟✟✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

CP i<br />

IP<br />

<br />

✟ ✟✟ ❍<br />

❍ ❍<br />

VP I<br />

✏ ✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏<br />

<br />

✟ ❍❍<br />

Asunta-q pisi aqha aqha-sqa-n-ta<br />

✟ ✟✟✟ ❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

Asunta-gen little cornbeer make-nm-3sg-acc NP V’<br />

Nuqa<br />

I<br />

✟ ✟✟✟ ❍ ❍ ❍<br />

DP V<br />

✟ ✟ ❍ ❍<br />

D NP aparani<br />

✟ ✟ ❍❍ ❍ brought<br />

t i N<br />

R<br />

At this point I would like to suggest a revision to (3.60) which departs from<br />

<strong>the</strong> analysis <strong>of</strong> Japanese in [Shimoyama 1999, 2001] in ways suggested by <strong>the</strong> nonprototypical<br />

behavior <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> E-type pronoun in Quechua. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, <strong>the</strong> revision<br />

addresses a ra<strong>the</strong>r unexpected aspect <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tree in (3.60) given <strong>the</strong> discussion <strong>of</strong><br />

head-raising which has formed <strong>the</strong> bulk <strong>of</strong> this chapter. Ideally we would like to<br />

posit parallel syntactic structures for weakly <strong>and</strong> strongly-headed relative clauses<br />

<strong>and</strong> I now proceed to outline such an analysis.<br />

I start by assuming that in fact <strong>the</strong> motivation for head-raising in all nominalized<br />

relative clauses in Quechua is <strong>the</strong> same: <strong>the</strong> uninterpretable [+wh] feature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

complementizer C acts as a probe which finds <strong>the</strong> head as its goal. This is all<br />

as discussed in Section 3.3.2.3. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, in no case is <strong>the</strong>re an intervening<br />

NP but ra<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> Caseless determiner discussed above always selects a CP <strong>and</strong><br />

requires <strong>the</strong> incorporation <strong>of</strong> a determiner with a Case feature. This now radically<br />

alters our picture in (2.31). We are forced to posit <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> a null article<br />

even in <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> weakly-quantified heads, <strong>and</strong> this determiner incorporates<br />

into <strong>the</strong> external D. Where is <strong>the</strong> “E-type” pronoun in this case? I posit that in

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