NUMBER AGREEMENT IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF VERBAL TRANSITIONS IN THE AYACUCHO VARIETY OF QUECHUA

MartelParedes V.A. · Forma y Funcion (2025) · DOI: 10.15446/fyf.v38n1.112211

Resumen

In this work, we show that in the Ayacucho variety of Quechua the morpheme of Number with plural information is realized with one of the Participants of the Speech Act (Speaker or Addressee) through the operation of Agreement, and will maximize the satisfaction of Person features through cyclic Agreement. However, when it must agree with both Participants with plural information and they belong to a high position in the Hierarchy of Person, the head will erase the specific feature of Addressee, through the operation of Impoverishment in order to agree with both. Additionally, we will explain the absence of third-person object agreement with the head Number, since any third person clitic is generated within the DP; and why, in some instances, the agreement between Subject third-person plural DP and the Number head includes the feature Addressee. We will sustain that since second person singular Object appears in the sentence, the agreement accesses the information of Person exceptionally as a case of semantic and not syntactic agreement.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos