TY - CONF A1 - Duncan, Lachlan T1 - On the perfect tense-aspect in K'ichee'an Mayan: An LFG approach T2 - Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) N2 - Previous accounts of the perfect tense-aspect in the K'ichee'an languages have concluded that the category or part-of-speech of the perfect is a verb, or less often, a participle. We believe otherwise. Empirical support is presented for the hypothesis that the perfect is expressed using either a deverbal participial adjective or a deverbal possessed nominal in the form of a detransitivized non-verbal predicate. We show that the perfect always consists of a one-place intransitive but that it, nonetheless, retains the capacity to express two argument roles. Further, we argue that the perfect is, in fact, a perfect. We present the various semantic types of perfect, including the perfect of result and the experiential perfect, and also show the temporal restrictions that constrain the perfect. The analyses are implemented using the syntactic architecture of LFG. KW - Quiché-Sprache KW - Perfekt Y1 - 2016 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/73378 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-733781 SN - 1535-1793 VL - 23.2016 SP - 215 EP - 235 PB - CSLI Publications CY - Stanford, CA ER -