dc.contributor.author | Caponigro, Ivano | |
dc.contributor.author | Torrence, Harold | |
dc.contributor.author | Cisneros, Carlos | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-10T15:18:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-10T15:18:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence, and Carlos Cisneros. (2013). Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, 79(1):61-96. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1086/668608 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-7071 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14686 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/668608 | |
dc.description.abstract | Two previously unstudied Mixtec languages—Nieves Mixtec and Melchor Ocampo Mixtec—are investigated, with special emphasis on free relative clauses and two related wh-constructions: interrogative wh-clauses and headed relative clauses. It is shown that both Mixtec languages make use of most wh-words found in interrogatives to form free relatives, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses like the bracketed one in Luca tasted [what Adam cooked]. Both languages exhibit the three kinds of free relatives that are attested cross-linguistically: definite free relatives (with the distribution and interpretation of defnite descriptions like in the example above), existential free relatives (occurring in the complement position of existential constructions), and -ever free relatives (occurring as arguments like I'll do [whatever you say] or as clausal adjuncts like [Whatever you say], I won't change my mind). Similarities and diferences are discussed between free relative clauses and headed relative clauses in both languages and between Mixtec wh-constructions and cross-linguistic patterns | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work has been partially supported by a Latino Studies Research Initiative Research Grant, University of California, San Diego. | |
dc.publisher | University of Chicago Press | |
dc.subject | Nieves Mixtec | |
dc.subject | Melchor Ocampo Mixtec | |
dc.subject | wh-word | |
dc.subject | wh-constructions | |
dc.subject | Free relative clauses | |
dc.title | Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Torrence, Harold | |
kusw.kudepartment | Linguistics | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1086/668608 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |