Many languages of the Mayan family restrict the extraction of transitive (ergative) subjects for
focus, wh-questions, and relativization (Ā-extraction). We follow Aissen (2017b) in labeling …

Recent work proposes that modal auxiliaries project their domains from an event variable,
their 'anchor'(Hacquard 2006, 2010, Kratzer 2013). Based on the Spanish modal indefinite …

Research on the (in) definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding
which type-shifters exist in human language and which principles are needed to govern their …

This paper has two main goals. One is to introduce a type of “headless”(or “antecedentless”)
relative clause that presents a gap strategy and that has not been sufficiently discussed in …

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 …

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 …

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo contribuir al estudio de las cláusulas relativas en
dos lenguas mayas, el maya yucateco y el ch'ol, desde una perspectiva comparativa. A …

“La presente tesis es una investigación sobre las construcciones relativas en el lhiimaasipij
que se habla en el municipio de Tlachichilco del estado de Veracruz (LHT, en adelante). El …

This paper provides a novel description and syntactic analysis of different types of
quantifiers in Chuj, an underdocumented Mayan language. We focus on a subset of …

This paper provides a novel description and syntactic analysis of different types of
quantifiers in Chuj, an underdocumented Mayan language. We focus on a subset of …