Linguistics in Amsterdam 4-2 (september 2011)

Language transparency in Functional Discourse Grammar: The case of Quechua1

Magaly Grández Ávila

University of Amsterdam.


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Quechua language
3 Accounting for degrees of transparency between levels
3.1 At the Interpersonal-Representational levels
3.1.1 No cross-reference
3.1.2 No apposition
3.1.3 No limitations on which semantic units can be chosen as predicates
3.2 At the Representational-Morphosyntactic levels
3.2.1 No grammatical relations
3.2.2 No discontinuity
3.2.3 Lexeme functions and derivational processes not sensitive to nature of input
3.2.4 Function marking not sensitive to nature of input
3.3 At the Morphosyntactic-Phonological levels
3.3.1 Phonological phrasing and morphosyntactic phrasing run in parallel
3.3.2 Phonological weight does not influence morphosyntactic placement
4 Accounting for degrees of transparency within levels
4.1 At the Morphosyntactic Level
4.1.1 No expletive elements
4.1.2 No tense copying
4.1.3 No raising
4.1.4 No grammatical gender, declination or conjugation
4.1.5 No agreement (but pronominal arguments)
4.1.6 Phrase marking through clitics rather than head marking through affixes
4.1.7 No fusional morphology
4. 2 At the Phonological Level
4.2.1 No diphtongization or nasalization
4.2.2 No sandhi rules
4.2.3 No degemination
5 Conclusions
Notes
6 List of references