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In general, other weak and strong quantifiers in Cuzco Quechua follow the basic
patterns of pisi and tukuy studied here. In particular, universal quantifiers always
take wide scope over the clause regardless of their internal or external surface positions.
Judgments on weak quantifiers other than pisi can be variable, however,
and this issue will be looked at further in Chapter 3. Although the internal reading
seems to be always available, sometimes an external reading is possible too.
Consider, for instance, examples (2.29) and (2.30). Since wakin ‘some’ is strong
in Cuzco Quechua, these sentences mean something like “Some of the houses that
Juan’s father built are big,” and not “Juan’s father built some of the houses and
they are big.” On the other hand, the same sentences with the number kinsa ‘three’,
a weak quantifier, in place of wakin mean “Juan’s father made three houses and
they are big.” In this case, he made exactly three, and they are all big. These
interpretations are in line with the strong and weak quantifier positions suggested
by pisi and tukuy.
2.4.2 Calculating truth conditions
In this section I spell out the technical details of the parsing mechanism for the RC
structures I have proposed.
I begin with the pisi-headed relative clause in sentence (2.31). This sentence is
repeated here as (2.45), and I now gloss its (slightly simplified) structure with the
denotations of each node, in (2.46).
(2.45) [[Asunta-q pisi
Asunta-ge little
apa-ra-ni
bring-past-1sg
aqha
cornbeer
aqha-sqa-n]]-ta
make corn beer-nm-3sg-acc
‘Asunta made a little corn beer and I brought it (the little corn beer that she
made).’