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International Journal of American Linguistics, 2012. — 53 p. This paper investigates embedded non-interrogative wh-clauses known as free relative clauses (henceforth, FRs) in two Mixtec languages – Nieves Mixtec and Melchor Ocampo Mixtec. FRs are clauses like the bracketed one in Luca tasted [what Adam cooked]. While the literature on Mixtec languages does document interrogative wh-clauses and headed relative clauses (e.g. Bradley 1970, Daly 1973, Alexander 1980, Bradley and Hollenbach 1988b, 1990, 1991, 1992, Macaulay 1996, Eberhardt 1999), we know of no reference to or description of FRs in any Mixtec language. Also, we are not aware of any previous study on Nieves Mixtec or Melchor Ocampo Mixtec. Mixtec languages together with Triqui and Cuicatec constitute the Mixtecan languages, a branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. The roughly fifty Mixtec languages are spoken in the Mexican region called La Mixteca, which is located in the western part of Oaxaca and in adjoining parts of Puebla and Guerrero. Due to vast emigration because of poverty, Mixtec languages are now spoken in California and other U.S. states as well. Nieves Mixtec is spoken in and around the village of San

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Caponigro I., Torrence H., Cisneros C.

Language

EN

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nonfiction

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Language Learning, Language