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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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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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  • 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.