| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 553 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introducing headless relative clauses and the findings from Mesoamerican languages / Ivano Caponigro -- Headless relative clauses in Southeastern Tepehuan (O'dam) / Gabriela García Salido -- Headless relative clauses in Tlaxcala Náhuatl / Lucero Flores-Nájera -- Headless relative clauses in Acazulco Otomi / Néstor Hernández-Green -- Headless relative clauses in Matlatzinca / Enrique L. Palancar, Leonardo Carranza Martínez -- Headless relative clauses in Iliatenco Me'phaa / Philip T. Duncan, Harold Torrence -- Headless relative clauses in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec / Pafnuncio Antonio-Ramos -- Headless relative clauses in K'iche' / Telma Angelina Can Pixabaj -- Headless relative clauses in Q'anjob'al / Eladio Mateo Toledo (B'alam) -- Headless relative clauses in Chuj / Justin Royer -- Headless relative clauses in Ch'ol / Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez, Jessica Coon -- Headless relative clauses in Tseltalan / Gilles Polian, Judith Aissen -- Headless relative clauses in Yucatec Maya / Scott AnderBois, Miguel Oscar Chan Dzul -- Headless relative clauses in Sierra Popoluca / Wendy López Márquez -- Headless relative clauses in Pesh / Claudine Chamoreau |
| Summary |
"This volume presents the collective work of a team of twenty-one scholars that have investigated headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families-all Mesoamerican but one. Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise within and across languages and for our understanding of human language in general. Headless relative clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages. This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of Headless Relative Clauses for any Mesoamerican languages we know of and the broadest and most articulated crosslinguistic study of headless relative clauses that has been conducted so far. For most of the languages in this volume, there is no descriptive or documentary material on wh-constructions in general, let alone headless relative clauses. Many of the languages are threatened or endangered; all are understudied. All of the chapters constitute original contributions to typological and theoretical linguistics. The first chapter introduces and defines the varieties of headless relative clauses that are investigated in the other chapters, compares them to two related and better-known constructions, namely headed relative clauses and wh- interrogative clauses, summarizes the main findings in a comparative prospective, highlights the importance of studying headless relative clauses to understand human language, and provides a methodological framework for the other chapters and future work. All the other chapters are language-specific and follow a uniform format to facilitate comparisons and generalizations across languages"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 19, 2021) |
| Subject |
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Relative clauses
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Indians of Central America -- Languages -- Relative clauses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caponigro, Ivano, 1970- editor
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Torrence, Harold, editor
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Zavala, Roberto, editor
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| LC no. |
2020023234 |
| ISBN |
9780197518397 |
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0197518397 |
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9780197518403 |
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0197518400 |
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