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Quechua seem to be mandatorily verb-final. The issue of the configurationality of
the DP constituent will be discussed further in Chapter 6.
Quechua morphology is of the agglutinating type and both nouns and verbs can
support multiple suffixation (indicating such things as tense, direction, person and
number agreement, etc.) Examples of these affixes can be found in the verbs in
(1.5) and (1.6), from [Valderrama & Escalante 1977], the autobiography of Gregorio
Condori Mamani (GCM), a cuzqueño porter.
(1.5) Manan
NOT
mancha-ri-ku-ra-ni-chu.
fear-inch-refl-past-1sg-neg
‘I did not get scared.’ (GCM p.31)
(1.6) Ña
already
uywa-kuna-pas
animal-pl-conj
mikhu-sqa-n-ku-manta
eat-nm-3sg-pl-abl
kuti-y-mu-sha-n-ku-ña... (GCM p.29)
turn-aug-cis-prog-3sg-pl-already
‘The animals (also) were already returning from their grazing.’
Case marking is overt as can be seen on the direct object in (1.4) and the ablative
in (1.6).
A variety of subordinate clause types will be relevant to this dissertation. These
include relative clauses, adverbial clauses and complement clauses. In the case of
relative clauses there are different strategies available but I will focus almost exclusively
on the most common type which involves nominalization of the relative
clause. One piece of evidence for the nominal nature of the clauses is their ability to
be overtly Case-marked. We can observe that the clausal Case-markers are licensed
by the nominalized verb and not simply by the presence of a nominal head by noting