Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages

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Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages is written by Ivano Caponigro and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197518400 (ISBN 10) and 9780197518403 (ISBN 13).

This volume constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of varieties of headless relative clauses in fifteen languages from five language families, all Mesoamerican languages spoken in Mexico and Guatemala and one Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. Headless relative clauses are clauses that often resemble interrogative clauses or headed relative clauses in their morpho-syntactic shape, but whose meaning brings them close to nominal constructions. For the vast majority of the languages in this volume, many of which are endangered and all of which are understudied, the work presented here represents the only published material on the subject.