32.222, Books: Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages: Caponigro, Torrence, Maldonado (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:06:13
From:  Oxford University Press [humanitiesmarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages: Caponigro, Torrence, Maldonado (eds.)

 


Title: Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/headless-relative-clauses-in-mesoamerican-languages-9780197518373?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Ivano Caponigro
Editor: Harold Torrence
Editor: Roberto Zavala Maldonado

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197518373 Pages: 578 Price: U.S. $ 99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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