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chapter I focus on -ta co-Casemarking since this phenomenon provides the most
frequent and robust data. However, my analysis will not depend crucially on the Tr
head (as discussed in Chapter 3) being the sole licensor of the double Case-marking,
and in fact this is unlikely to be the case. I will return to the question of the
environment in which the apparent extraction from DP is licensed in Section 6.4.3.
Besides the cases of quantification and (restrictive) modification considered here,
there are other situations in which the same Case marker may be used twice in
Quechua, most of which I am unable to address here in detail. These include ambiguous
Case markers, conjunctions, appositives, and secondary predicates. Ambiguous
Case-marking is discussed in Section 6.3. Conjunctions I leave aside as
clearly distinct from the phenomenon under study here. Appositives and secondary
predicates, however, can sometimes appear syntactically rather similar to the constructions
under study here. In fact, besides the semantic distinctions one piece of
evidence showing that they do constitute different constructions altogether is that
they allow co-Casemarking of oblique as well as structural Case. In some cases co-
Casemarking constructions may in fact be structurally ambiguous, and an example
and brief discussion are provided below in footnote 2.
6.2.2 Quantifiers
In this section I give further background on the Quechua quantifiers in question. I
claim that the basic use of the quantifiers is as D-quantifiers, or “determiner-like”
quantifiers (in the vocabulary of [Bach et al. 1995]). An example is shown in (6.14).
(6.14) wakin ‘some (of)’
ayni-ta-qa
work.exchange-acc-top
ru-ra-yku
do-past-1pl(excl.)
[waki-lla-n
some-delim-3
‘...only some peasants did the work exchange.’ (GCM p.36)
paisano]...
peasant