@phdthesis{69362,
  author          = {Jake, Janice Lynn},
  pages           = {303},
  school          = {University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign},
  title           = {Grammatical Relations in Imbabura Quechua (Ecuador)},
  year            = {1983},
  abstract        = {This thesis examines certain aspects of the syntactic structure of Imbabura Quechua within the framework of relational grammar. Specifically, it examines the grammatical relations borne by nominals in the following syntactic constructions: passive, dative movement, ascensions out of sentential subjects and sentential objects, subject inversion, direct object advancement in unaccusative clauses, and causative clause union. The analysis of these constructions presented in this study provides support for the theory of relational grammar and for the more central of the universal laws of relational grammar. The analysis of passive and ascensions out of sentential subjects and sentential objects provides support for the use of constrained variables to represent the candidate relation of relational rules. The examination of ascensions in Imbabura Quechua also provides support for the claim that certain initially intransitive clauses have direct objects but no subjects (Perlmutter 1978). An examination of the inversion construction in Imbabura Quechua provides evidence for the inversion of subject nominals to indirect object, although an inverted subject always occurs as a direct object. The interaction of inversion and other rules shows that in Imbabura Quechua a nominal can passivize in an inversion clause. This is a counter-example to the claim in Perlmutter (1978) that inversion clauses do not allow passive and always involve the advancement of a direct object to subject in an unaccusative stratum. The analysis of causative clause union constructions in Imbabura Quechua presented in this thesis suggests that the principles determining the syntactic structure of causative clause union constructions are not entirely understood.},
  bestfn          = {south_america\jake_quechua-imbabura1983_o.pdf},
  besttxt         = {ptxt2\south_america\jake_quechua-imbabura1983_o.txt},
  cfn             = {south_america\jake_quechua1983_o.pdf},
  degree          = {PhD},
  delivered       = {south_america\jake_quechua1983_o.pdf},
  digital_formats = {PDF 10.03Mb image-only PDF},
  fn              = {south_america\jake_quechua-imbabura1983.pdf, south_america\jake_quechua1983_o.pdf, south_america\jake_quechua-imbabura1983_o.pdf},
  hhtype          = {grammar_sketch},
  inlg            = {English [eng]},
  lgcode          = {Imbabura Highland Quichua [qvi] = "Imbabura Quechua"},
  macro_area      = {South America},
  source          = {DAI-A 45/01, p. 170, Jul 1984},
  src             = {hh},
  subject         = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  umi_id          = {8409963}
}