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Subject(s)

• Kanjobal language [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

• Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; Volume 10. [More in this series]
• Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series ; Volume 10

Summary note

In this book, Eladio Mateo Toledo presents a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, causatives, and directional constructions in the Mayan language Q’anjob’al spoken in the northwest of Guatemala. Although causatives (analyzed as clause union) and directionals (analyzed as serial verbs) have long been studied in Mayan languages, no Mayan language has been shown to have an extensive list of complex predicates. This volume contains the first coherent account of a series of complex predicates in a Mayan language. The book shows that complex predicates in Q’anjob’al use one of two predicative frames, a verb+verb frame or a nonverbal+verb frame, and that only five general parameters explain their formal and semantic properties.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Copyright Page / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Dedication / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Acknowledgments / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Glosses, Abbreviations, and Notations / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 1 The Book and the Language / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 2 Morphosyntax of Simple and Complex Predicates / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 3 The Monoclausal Syntax of Complex Predicate Constructions / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 4 The Argument Structure and Meaning of Complex Predicates / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 5 Event Structure and Lexical Semantics in Complex Predicates / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Chapter 6 Conclusions about Complex Predicates and Extensions of their Analysis / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• References / Eladio Mateo Toledo
• Indexes / Eladio Mateo Toledo.

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ISBN

9789004289987 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

• 1349281969
• 1348867081

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004289987

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