Saturday, February 18, 2012

Negative construction in Copala Triqui

The contrastive negative construction in Copala Triqui has the form

Nuveé {NP|PP} [S...]   "It is not {NP|PP} that ...."


For contrasting the object of a preposition, both preposition stranding and pied-piping of the PP are possible.  This example shows pied-piping:


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