Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 March 2021
- ISBN 9780197518373
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages578 pages
- Size 155x236x38 mm
- Weight 975 g
- Language English 141
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Short description:
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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Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages.
Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of the topic. Spanning fifteen languages from five language families, it is the broadest crosslinguistic study of headless relative clauses yet conducted. For most of these languages there is no previous descriptive or documentary material on wh-constructions in general, let alone headless relative clauses. Many of the languages are threatened or endangered; all are understudied.
Each chapter in this volume constitutes an original contribution to typological and theoretical linguistics. The first chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to the varieties of headless relative clauses and their importance to the study of human language, while the other chapters are language-specific and follow a uniform format to facilitate comparisons and generalizations across languages. Through the collective work of a team of twenty-one scholars, Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages presents a clear and systematic introduction to relative and interrogative clauses in Mesoamerican languages.
A ground-breaking volume -- the first exclusively on headless relatives, the first on semantic issues in Mesoamerican languages. An excellent introduction and detailed explorations of individual languages paint a rich and exciting picture of how wh structures without nominal heads can have referential import. Typologists, syntacticians, semanticists and anyone studying microvariation in relativization strategies will find a wealth of hidden gems in this outstanding contribution to the vibrant field of cross-linguistic semantics.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introducing Headless Relative Clauses and the findings from Mesoamerican languages Ivano Caponigro
Chapter 2. Headless Relative Clauses in Southeastern Tepehuan (O'dam) Gabriela García Salido
Chapter 3. Headless Relative Clauses in Tlaxcala Nahuatl Lucero Flores-Nájera
Chapter 4. Headless Relative Clauses in Acazulco Otomi Néstor Hernández-Green
Chapter 5. Headless Relative Clauses in Matlatzinca Enrique L. Palancar and Leonardo Carranza Martínez
Chapter 6. Headless Relative Clauses in Iliatenco Me'phaa Philip T. Duncan and Harold Torrence
Chapter 7. Headless Relative Clauses in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec Pafnuncio Antonio-Ramos
Chapter 8. Headless Relative Clauses in K'iche' Telma Angelina Can Pixabaj
Chapter 9. Headless Relative Clauses in Q'anjob'al Eladio Mateo Toledo
Chapter 10. Headless Relative Clauses in Chuj Justin Royer
Chapter 11. Headless Relative Clauses in Ch'ol Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez and Jessica Coon
Chapter 12. Headless Relative Clauses in Tseltalan Gilles Polian and Judith Aissen
Chapter 13. Headless Relative Clauses in Yucatec Maya Scott AnderBois and Miguel Oscar Chan Dzul
Chapter 14. Headless Relative Clauses in Sierra Popoluca Wendy López Márquez
Chapter 15. Headless Relative Clauses in Pesh Claudine Chamoreau
Index
