(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-08-31) Bozovich Bottger, Branko
We present a syntactic analysis of a language with an ergative-absolutive alignment, Shipibo, and a language with a nominative-accusative alignment. This is developed by deploying syntactic schemes in line with Marantz's case distribution hierarchy. Thus, transitive and intransitive utterances of each language have been assessed and compared, considering particular characteristics of each language. It has been noted that Spanish and Shipibo maintain a different case allocation amongst them. Likewise, it has been confirmed that the intransitive utterances of these languages do not exhibit greater differences than the transitive ones. Finally, it has not been possible to confirm whether constructions which share the same alignment could be equivalent between an accusative and an ergative language, given that the split-ergativity example studied in Shipibo maintains the ergative case.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-08-31) Ramírez Herrera, Víctor Gonzalo
This paper analyzes the sentence "no hay un solo amigo en el mundo" and explains two possible interpretations: in the first interpretation, there is no friend in the world and in the second, there is more than one. Our analysis is based on the syntactic behavior of the negative operator and suggests that, in one of the interpretations, the operator satisfies the so-called "Neg Criterion" generating negative concord, and, in the other interpretation, it does not. The final objective of this document is to present the descriptive and theoretical tools to approach this type of negation case from a syntactic perspective.