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the syntax and semantics of relativization and quantification

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Adoption <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> partitive Case analysis is compatible with <strong>the</strong> view in (5.44) in<br />

which <strong>the</strong> associate is first Merged within VP. The important point given our results<br />

<strong>of</strong> Chapter 3, however, is that <strong>the</strong> associate is not an argument <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> verb. The<br />

non-argument status <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> associate is also consistent with <strong>the</strong> observation that<br />

<strong>the</strong> associate cannot be <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> a non-subject -sqa relative clause as mentioned<br />

above. Therefore, ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> T to which <strong>the</strong> expletive merges directly also assigns<br />

Case to <strong>the</strong> associate, or <strong>the</strong> associate receives inherent Case. Under <strong>the</strong> second<br />

view <strong>the</strong> tree structure we end up with is shown again in (5.48).<br />

(5.48) TP<br />

✟ ✟✟ ❍<br />

❍ ❍<br />

Expl T’<br />

✟ ✟❍<br />

❍<br />

vP T<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍ ❍<br />

VP<br />

v<br />

❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍ v ka-n<br />

❍<br />

llamakuna V’ be-3sg<br />

llamas ✟ ✟✟ ❍ ❍ ❍<br />

urqu-pi t V<br />

mountain-loc<br />

5.4 Structure <strong>of</strong> CQ Possessive sentences<br />

In this section I turn to <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> possessive sentences in Cuzco Quechua.<br />

5.4.1 Some problems: ‘Maria has llamas’, <strong>and</strong> ‘There are<br />

those mountains’<br />

The analysis presented in <strong>the</strong> previous section has, as one <strong>of</strong> its predictions, a<br />

Quechua version <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> definiteness effect. That is, <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> an existential<br />

construction seems to imply that <strong>the</strong> associate will always be an indefinite. Indeed,<br />

in <strong>the</strong> vast majority <strong>of</strong> cases that I have examined this holds. For instance,

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