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Free relative clauses in Yucatec Maya
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Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo
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April 9, 2013
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis and description of the syntax of free relative clauses in Yucatec Maya, the Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The description and analysis focus on two structural properties of these free relative clauses; a) the internal nature of the relative pronoun, and, b) the absence of matching effects observed in Yucatec free relatives when a prepositional phrase is relativized. I show that these two phenomena receive a unified description in an analysis where Yucatec, in contrast with a language like English, allows the head of the noun phrase to be null.
Keywords: subordination; relative clauses; free relative clauses; relative pronouns; matching effects
Published Online: 2013-04-09
Published in Print: 2013-04
© by Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany
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Keywords for this article
subordination;
relative clauses;
free relative clauses;
relative pronouns;
matching effects
