Nominalization and case assignment in Quechua

Abstract: In Quechua most embedded clauses are nominalized. In addition, dialects like Cuzco and Junin-Huanca have genitive subjects in both complement and relative clauses. Significantly, objects in these clauses cannot be marked with accusative case. Based on the approach to nominalizations suggested in , we derive the case marking pattern in nominalized clauses from the level at which nominalization applies in the derivation. We also analyze the genitive subjects in Quechua as licensed by C (as in Turkish) rather than by D (as suggested in recent work by Miyagawa for Japanese). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]