Experiential constructions in Yucatec Maya a typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language - Verhoeven, Elisabeth (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007)
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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
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
Keywords: Maya (Langue) / Grammaire; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages; Language and languages; Maya language / Grammar; Grammatik; Sprache; Maya language -- Grammar; Maya-Sprache; Hochschulschrift