Resumen

HERRERA CASTRO, Samuel. Relative Clauses in Purepecha of Carapan, Michoacán. Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx. [online]. 2014, vol.1, pp.26-55.  Epub 02-Dic-2024. ISSN 2007-736X.

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.

Palabras llave : relative clauses; internally-headed relative clauses; case marking; purepecha.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )