Fronting of Nondirect Arguments and Adverbial Focus Marking on the Verb in Classical Yucatec
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4561338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoshiho Yasugi (National Museum of Ethnology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-86 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/430578 |
| OpenAlex | W2090199754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Classical Yucatec Maya has two different sets of inflection: unmarked and marked verb forms. When a nondirect argument—an adverbially functioning word or phrase—is fronted to a preverbal position, the verb appears in a marked form. The marked verb forms in question show split ergative morphology, which is controlled by both aspect and person. Since adverbially functioning words and phrases are the same in form as nonadverbial adjectives, nouns, past participles etc., I argue that adverbial function is marked on the verb. Unlike other Mayan languages, which have invariant verbal suffixes for fronted nondirect arguments, Classical Yucatec employs a complete set of aspectual markers to signal the adverbial function of a fronted constituent. I propose that the strategy of marking adverbial function on the verb is available to Classical Yucatec because it is a head‐marking language, where markers tend to appear on heads rather than dependents
Adverbial · Ergative case · Infinitive · Inflection · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Specifier · Verb · Verb phrase · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |