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...

Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig) A standard assumption of earlier versions of generative grammar was that transformations can remove syntactic structure -- either complete subtrees of a phrase marker (as in transformations like Passive, Equi NP Deletion, or Indefinite Object Deletion), or just certain nodes or shells (see, e.g., Tree Pruning as envisaged by Haj Ross,...