Relative Clauses in Carapan Purepecha

Authors

  • Samuel Herrera Castro El Colegio de México

Keywords:

relative clauses, internally-headed relative clauses, case marking, Purepecha

Abstract

Relative clauses in Purepecha need special subordinate mood markers, as well as “reduced” aspectual forms (Andrews 2007). This paper shows that internally-headed relative clauses in Purepecha, although marked, are not completely ungrammatical, a fact that might contribute to strengthen the hypothesis that Purepecha used to be an SOV language (Villavicencio 2002; Nava and Capistrán 1998). Also, it is argued that, in externally-headed relative clauses, the head noun can retain the case marker that would correspond to its grammatical role in the subordinate clause.

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Published

2013-12-01

How to Cite

Herrera Castro, S. (2013). Relative Clauses in Carapan Purepecha. Cuadernos De Lingüística De El Colegio De México (CLECM), 1, 26–55. Retrieved from https://ojs3.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/3

Issue

Vol. 1 (2013): Volume 1 (December 2013-November 2014)

Section

Research Articles

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