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Published 2007.
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 ...
Published 2007.
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.
