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Título del libro: Headless Relative Clauses In Mesoamerican Languages
Título del capítulo: Headless relative clauses in K?iche?

Autores UNAM:
TELMA ANGELINA CAN PIXABAJ;
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Año de publicación:
2021
Palabras clave:

Determiner; Free choice; Free relative; Headed relative; Headless relative; Interrogative clause; K?iche?; Light-headed relative; Mayan; Wh-expression


Resumen:

This chapter offers a preliminary description of headless relative clauses in K?iche?. The language exhibits all three varieties of free relative clauses that are attested crosslinguistically: maximal, existential, and free-choice. It also has two other kinds of headless relative clauses: light-headed relative clauses introduced by determiners (without wh-expressions) and headless relative clauses with no marking of any kind (neither wh-expressions nor determiners). Overall, the picture that emerges is that all three varieties of free relative clauses exhibit clear morpho-syntactic and semantic differences that differentiate them both from each other as well as from headed relative clauses. One characteristic that helps to differentiate between them is the different subsets of wh-expressions they make use of. All of these wh- clausal constructions are related but, crucially, independent. Of the two kinds of headless relative clauses that do not make use of wh-expressions, one kind-light-headed relative clauses-is introduced by a determiner, while the other kind has no special marking. Both exhibit distributional and semantic restrictions that distinguish them from headed relative clauses. © Oxford University Press 2021.


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