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BROADWELL, GEORGE AARON (2003). Review of Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax: A principles and parameters approach by Cheryl Black.
URL: http://www.degruyter.de/journals/tlr/pdf/20_95.pdf
(Last accessed 2005-03-08).
ODIN: http://odin.linguistlist.org/igt_raw.php?id= 642&langcode=zpi (2021-07-08).
Example #1:
(1) *Pa go r-laa de lo txu?
what thing hab-do 2 to who
(What are you doing to who?)
Example #2:
(2) *Pa go txu lo r-laa de?
what thing who to hab-do 2
(What to whom are you doing?)
Example #3:
(3) Rut wii-t Maryo.
nobody com:see-neg Mario
`Mario saw nobody.'
Example #4:
(4) *Wii-t Maryo rut.
com:see-neg Mario nobody
(Mario saw nobody.)
Example #5:
(5) Rut bet wii-t.
nobody nothing com:see-neg
`Nobody saw anything.'
Example #6:
(6) *Rut wii-t bet.
nobody com:see-neg nothing
(Nobody saw anything.)
Example #7:
(10) R-oo men [y-rup men Biki] nisgaal.
hab-drink 3 pot-two 3 Virginia soda
`She and Virgina drink soda pop.'
Example #8:
(13) R-laan Jose s-ya (Jose) den
hab-want Jose pot-go (Jose) ranch
`Jose wants (Jose) to go to the ranch.'
Example #9:
(14) R-laan men s-ya men den
hab-want 3 pot-go 3 ranch
`He wants to go to the ranch.'
Example #10:
(15) *R-laan men s-ya den (constructed example)
hab-want 3 pot-go ranch
(He wants to go to the ranch.)
Example #11:
(17) Pe w-u maa nii de?
q com-eat 3anim foot 2
`Did it (the snake) eat your foot?' p. 122
Example #12:
(18) Pe dxiin zhe r-laa de na-ree?
q work wh hab-do 2 which-this
`What work are you doing with this?' p. 124
Example #13:
(19) x-pëëk win nzeb
p-dog small girl
`her (lit. the girl's) small dog'