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...