[图书][B] Headless relative clauses in Mesoamerican languages

I Caponigro, H Torrence, RZ Maldonado - 2020 - books.google.com
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 …

Wh-indeterminates in Chuj (Mayan)

H Kotek, MY Erlewine - … Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de …, 2019 - cambridge.org
This article investigates the varied uses of wh-words in Chuj, an understudied Mayan
language of Guatemala. Cross-linguistically, wh-words are commonly used not only for …

Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to Donati, Foppolo, Konrad, and Cecchetto 2022

I Caponigro - Linguistic Inquiry, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Donati et al.(2022) aim at supporting the theoretical and empirical claims in Donati and
Cecchetto 2011 about the grammar and free relative clauses by responding to the new data …

'What'clauses can and'which'cannot: A Romanian puzzle

I Caponigro, A Fălăuș - Language, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
A previously unnoticed puzzle is presented concerning the distribution of wh-determiners in
free relative clauses in Romanian: while care'which'+ NP can never introduce free relative …

[PDF][PDF] Headless relative clauses and the syntax-semantics mapping: Evidence from Mesoamerica

I Caponigro - Proceedings of the 11th semantics of under …, 2022 - pages.ucsd.edu
Although much less studied, there'sa broad family of embedded full tensed clauses that
exhibit a semantic behavior resembling those of DPs: they don't convey propositional …

Referring and quantifying without nominals: headless relative clauses across languages

I Caponigro - Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2023 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Nominals can be used to refer to or quantify over individuals, while clauses convey
propositional content, with the exception of set-denoting restrictive headed relative clauses …

[图书][B] Wh-questions: A case study in Czech

L Veselovská - 2021 - ceeol.com
In the empirical, descriptive sections of this monograph the author develops standard
argumentation in favour of the structurally-based transformational nature of Wh-questions in …

[PDF][PDF] Free relatives in Gitksan

Y Aonuki - Proceedings of the 11th semantics of under …, 2022 - osf.io
Mary sneaked out to go to a party yesterday and broke her curfew. Her mother is mad
because Mary went to a party, and not because she broke the curfew.[*(agu) g̱an wil= hl …

'Why'without asking, in Romanian

I Caponigro, A Falaus - Non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses, 2023 - hal.science
This chapter offers the first description and semantic analysis for a previously unexplored
kind of non-interrogative wh-clause, namely free relative clauses introduced by de ce 'why'in …

Investigating clausal wh-constructions in Romanian

I Caponigro, A Falaus - Isogloss Open Journal of Romance …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Romanian has an articulated system of (non-) interrogative wh-clauses that look
morphosyntactically similar or even identical to each other on the surface, while exhibiting …