In certaindiscourses, a know whether sentence is unacceptable when its answer iscommon knowledge as in (1). Similarly, an ever-free relative isunacceptable when the identity of its referent is known in some relevant way,as in (2).(1) A: Don'tforget your umbrella. It's going to rain today.B: Yes, Iknow { #whether, that } it's going to rain today. I...

Explorations of reflexivity have looked at how a set of reflexive anaphors distribute in larger structures (particularly in clauses), taking for granted that reflexive anaphors constitute a natural class to which the grammar can make explicit reference (e.g., with binding principles). In this talk, we will look more closely at how the internal structure of...

Abstract: In Mixtec, nominal classifiers can occur both in compound-like constructions and in nominal constructions with adjectives. (1) tí-ñòñò CFR:3animal-honey ‘bee’ (2) ti-lo’ò CFR:3sphere-small.SG ‘small one’ We claim that in both cases the classifier is the head of the noun phrase. However, while in constructions with nominalized adjectives the classifier has referential properties (similar to...