Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.
Zarina Estrada-Fernández
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zarina Estrada-Fernández plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Finiteness and Nominalization
Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
[Typological Studies in Language, 113] 2016. vii, 380 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
[Typological Studies in Language, 102] 2012. xiii, 307 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Syntax | Typology
Articles
2019 Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo: Diachronic diversity Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity, Álvarez González, Albert, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 167–189 | Chapter
Pima Bajo is a Uto-Aztecan language from northwestern Mexico, traditionally spoken in the central part of the states of Chihuahua and Sonora. It is the most endangered language in the Uto-Aztecan family, a situation partially responsible for the loss of some remarkable features observed in complex… read more
2017 Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 82–105 | Chapter
This paper focuses on valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl. Regarding valency-increasing operations, it is shown that the suffix -lti/-ti/-tia is used for causativization of intransitive verbs, and that applicativization is marked by the suffix -lia/-li/-l. Regarding valency-decreasing… read more
2016 Finiteness and nominalization: An overview Finiteness and Nominalization, Chamoreau, Claudine and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2016 Exploring finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan) Finiteness and Nominalization, Chamoreau, Claudine and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 43–68 | Article
This paper aims to provide a proper characterization of finite and non-finite clauses in Pima Bajo, a Uto-Aztecan language from the Tepiman branch. Our main research questions are, firstly, how to address the topic of finiteness in a language without morphological tense marking? And secondly, what… read more
2012 Introduction Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Article
2012 From demonstrative to relative marker to clause linker: Relative clause formation in Pima Bajo Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 127–146 | Article
Pima Bajo a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northwestern Mexico, constructs relative clauses by means of a verbal suffix which has diachronically emerged from an stative/perfective suffix and a demonstrative; such a nominalizing strategy is quite distinct from those observed in others Uto-Aztecan… read more