Word structure and constituency in Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua

This chapter provides a description of word structure in Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua, a variety of Quechua spoken by monolinguals in rural Bolivia. We show that the language displays a mostly fixed ordering of suffixes and clitics. Cases where variable ordering does occur appear to not be associated with a scope difference. We apply the word/phrase constituency tests to Uma Piwra South Bolivian Quechua (SBQ) and show that the traditional notion of the word has some general support when constituency tests are aggregated.