Complex Predicates in Q’anjob’al (Maya) : : Resultative, End-state, Benefactive, Causative, Monitoring, and Directional / / Eladio Mateo Toledo.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Toledo, Eladio Mateo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Other title: Resultative, End-state, Benefactive, Causative, Monitoring, and Directional
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004289987
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eladio Mateo Toledo.

In this volume, Eladio Mateo Toledo provides a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, ditransitives, causatives, and directional constructions. Although causatives and directionals are explored in Mayan languages, this is the first coherent account of a series complex predicates in a Mayan language. In this book, Eladio Mateo Toledo presents a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, causatives, and directional constructions in the Mayan language Q’anjob’al spoken in the northwest of Guatemala. Although causatives (analyzed as clause union) and directionals (analyzed as serial verbs) have long been studied in Mayan languages, no Mayan language has been shown to have an extensive list of complex predicates. This volume contains the first coherent account of a series of complex predicates in a Mayan language. The book shows that complex predicates in Q’anjob’al use one of two predicative frames, a verb+verb frame or a nonverbal+verb frame, and that only five general parameters explain their formal and semantic properties.