This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vast majority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.…mehr
This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vast majority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ivano Caponigro is Associate Professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. He is interested in formal semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics across languages. He has conducted extensive crosslinguistic work on relative clauses and wh- clauses, with special emphasis on free relative clauses and other headless relative clauses. Harold Torrence is Associate Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the syntax and morphology of African and Mesoamerican languages. He has worked extensively on wh- questions, relativization, focus, and complementation. Roberto Zavala Maldonado is Professor of linguistics at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He is interested in Mesoamerican languages, typology, language documentation, syntax, and lexicography. He has conducted extensive research on several morphosyntactic aspects of Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages.
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* Preface * Acknowledgments * List of Contributors * List of Abbreviations * Chapter 1. Introducing Headless Relative Clauses and the findings from Mesoamerican languages Ivano Caponigro * Chapter 2. Headless Relative Clauses in Southeastern Tepehuan (O'dam) Gabriela García Salido * Chapter 3. Headless Relative Clauses in Tlaxcala Nahuatl Lucero Flores-Nájera * Chapter 4. Headless Relative Clauses in Acazulco Otomi Néstor Hernández-Green * Chapter 5. Headless Relative Clauses in Matlatzinca Enrique L. Palancar and Leonardo Carranza Martínez * Chapter 6. Headless Relative Clauses in Iliatenco Me'phaa Philip T. Duncan and Harold Torrence * Chapter 7. Headless Relative Clauses in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec Pafnuncio Antonio-Ramos * Chapter 8. Headless Relative Clauses in K'iche' Telma Angelina Can Pixabaj * Chapter 9. Headless Relative Clauses in Q'anjob'al Eladio Mateo Toledo * Chapter 10. Headless Relative Clauses in Chuj Justin Royer * Chapter 11. Headless Relative Clauses in Ch'ol Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez and Jessica Coon * Chapter 12. Headless Relative Clauses in Tseltalan Gilles Polian and Judith Aissen * Chapter 13. Headless Relative Clauses in Yucatec Maya Scott AnderBois and Miguel Oscar Chan Dzul * Chapter 14. Headless Relative Clauses in Sierra Popoluca Wendy López Márquez * Chapter 15. Headless Relative Clauses in Pesh Claudine Chamoreau * Index