| Abstract: | Kiche (K'iche') is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. This paper analyses the phenomenon of pied-piping with inversion, a word order alternation seen in interrogatives. Kiche normally has prepositional phrases, but these optionally invert in interrogatives. The analysis argues that this is due to competition between two alignment constraints -- Wh-L favors candidates where the interrogative word is clause-initial, and P-Left favors candidates where the preposition aligns with the left edge of the PP. |
