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I will argue that the overt presence in Quechua of constructions which reflect
the posited underlying structure in the Kayne/Szabolcsi brand of analysis reinforces
the correctness of this line of reasoning.
Given this basic approach, we must address the question of the specific version of
the Kayne/Szabolcsi analysis which the CQ data seem to indicate, and the question
of the correct LF structure of the CQ possessive sentences. That is, how does
CQ avoid a violation of the definiteness effect despite the surface appearance of a
prenominal possessor of the associate in an existential? To answer this question we
must look more closely at the structure of a possessive nominal.
Although CQ does not show different Case-marking paradigms for different
possessor-positions as Hungarian does, there is some evidence that the possessor
can appear in two different DP-internal positions, since the genitive-marked nominal
may occur either before or after a (strong) quantifier 10 and before or after a
demonstrative, as follows:
(5.68) Maria-q tukuy
Maria-gen all
‘All Maria’s llamas’
(5.69) Tukuy Maria-q
all Maria-gen
‘All Maria’s llamas’
llama-n
llama-3sg
llama-n
llama-3sg
(5.70) Maria-q chay llama-n
Maria-gen dem llama-3sg
‘Those llamas of Maria’s’
(5.71) chay Maria-q llama-n
dem Maria-gen llama-3sg
‘Those llamas of Maria’s’
10 The pre-possessor position is not available to weak quantifiers.