Headless Relative Clauses in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec
2021 ◽
pp. 221-259
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Headless relative clauses are investigated in the Zapotec variety spoken in San Pedro Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Two related constructions are briefly introduced as well: wh- interrogative clauses and headed relative clauses. San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec is shown to possess the three main kinds of free relative clauses that are attested crosslinguistically, each of which is distinguished by syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties: maximal, existential, and free-choice free relative clauses. The language also has two other kinds of headless relative clauses: light-headed relative clauses introduced by pronominals, and headless relative clauses introduced by relative pronouns.
2021 ◽
pp. 58-78
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pp. 290-326
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2015 ◽
Vol 20
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pp. 341-352
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2021 ◽
pp. 475-508
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2021 ◽
pp. 260-289
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pp. 327-361
2020 ◽
Vol 65
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pp. 209-222
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2021 ◽
pp. 79-110
2017 ◽
Vol 36
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pp. 323-363
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