Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages

Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages
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Book Synopsis Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages by : Ivano Caponigro

Download or read book Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages written by Ivano Caponigro and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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