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)

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 serie...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Tables and Figures
• Glosses, Abbreviations, and Notations
• 1 The Book and the Language
• 1.1 Complex Predicate Constructions
• 1.2 Definitions and Criteria in the Analysis of Complex Predicates
• 1.3 Past Work on Mayan Complex Predicates
• 1.4 An Overview of Complex Predicates in Q’anjob’al and Other Mayan Languages
• 1.5 Data and Methodology
• 1.6 Background on the Language
• 1.7 Organization of the Book
• 2 Morphosyntax of Simple and Complex Predicates
• 2.1 The Predicate Nucleus
• 2.2 Inflectional Morphology of Simple Predicates
• 2.3 Inflectional Morphology of Complex Predicates
• 2.4 Multiply Complex Predicates
• 2.5 Complex Predicates versus Compound Verbs
• 3 The Monoclausal Syntax of Complex Predicate Constructions
• 3.1 Basic Assumptions and Tests
• 3.2 Simple Clause
• 3.3 Clause Types in Q’anjob’al
• 3.4 Finite Monoclausal Features of Complex Predicates
• 3.5 The First Near-Twins: Intransitive V2 versus Uninflected Nonfinite Clause
• 3.6 The Second Near-Twins: Transitive V2 versus Inflected Nonfinite Clause
• 3.7 The Syntax of Other Complex Predicate Constructions
• 3.8 Conclusions
• 4 The Argument Structure and Meaning of Complex Predicates
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Argument Structure and Its Analysis
• 4.3 The Meanings of Complex Predicates in Q’anjob’al
• 4.4 The Argument Structure of Complex Predicates
• 4.5 The Rule of Predicate Adjacency in Total Fusion
• 4.6 Conclusions
• 5 Event Structure and Lexical Semantics in Complex Predicates
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Assumptions about Event Structure and Its Reflexes in Q’anjob’al
• 5.3 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Resultative Complex Predicates
• 5.4 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Positional End-State Complex Predicates
• 5.5 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Causative Complex Predicates
• 5.6 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Monitoring Complex Predicates
• 5.7 Event Structure and Lexical Semantics in the Benefactive Complex Predicate
• 5.8 Conclusions
• 6 Conclusions and Extensions of the Approach to Complex Predicates
• 6.1 The Approach to Complex Predicates: Conclusions and Generalizations
• 6.2 Avenues for Extending the Complex Predicate Approach to Other Constructions
• 6.3 Avenues for the Diachrony of Complex Predicates
• References
• Index.