Experiential constructions in Yucatec Maya : a typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language / Elisabeth Verhoeven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhoeven, Elisabeth.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 87.

Studies in language companion series ; v. 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya language--Grammar.

Maya language.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

Contents:

Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Figures and tables

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical preliminaries

3. Universals and typology of experiential constructions

4. Introduction to Yucatec Maya

5. Experiential constructions

6. Grammatical properties of experiencers

7. Complementation with experiential predicates

8. Person and body parts in experiential collocations

9. Conclusions

References

Index

The series Studies in Language Companion Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154690

9781282154698

1282154699

9789027292575

9027292574

OCLC:

613322599