Auxiliary Initial Alternation in Tohono O'odham: A Syntactic Analysis of a Focus Driven Phenonmenon

Tohono O'odham is one of many non-configurational languages that do not seem to fit nicely into the generally accepted pattern of Chomskyan Generative Syntax. O'odham has an extremely free word order that makes it difficult to analyze as hierarchical or syntax driven. However, this paper a...

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Main Author: Bare, Katherine Pearl
Other Authors: Carnie, Andrew
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578999