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

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 expressio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verhoeven, Elisabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 87.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 380 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027292575
9027292574
1282154699
9781282154698