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dc.contributor.authorCaponigro, Ivano
dc.contributor.authorTorrence, Harold
dc.contributor.authorCisneros, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-10T15:18:43Z
dc.date.available2014-07-10T15:18:43Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.identifier.citationIvano 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.issn0020-7071
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/14686
dc.descriptionThis is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/668608
dc.description.abstractTwo 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.sponsorshipThis work has been partially supported by a Latino Studies Research Initiative Research Grant, University of California, San Diego.
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.subjectNieves Mixtec
dc.subjectMelchor Ocampo Mixtec
dc.subjectwh-word
dc.subjectwh-constructions
dc.subjectFree relative clauses
dc.titleFree Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorTorrence, Harold
kusw.kudepartmentLinguistics
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/668608
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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