Environments For Pied-piping With Inversion
The most frequently cited type of sentence with pied-piping with inversion is a wh-question. However, a number of Mesoamerican languages also show fronting of negative or indefinite phrases to a position before the verb. Fronted negative and indefinite phrases may also show pied-piping with inversion in some languages, as in this example from San Dionisio Ocotepec Zapotec:
7.) a.) Rú-tè’cà ù-dííny Màríí.
animate:negative anyone p-dog com-hit Maria
‘Maria didn’t hit anyone’s dog.’
b.) *Rú-tè’cà ù-dííny Màríí.
animate:negative p-dog anyone com-hit Maria
The noun phrase 'anyone's dog' has been fronted to a position before the verb, and shows the same pied-piping with inversion seen in other syntactic environments.
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