On the perfect tense-aspect in K'ichee'an Mayan: An LFG approach

  • 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.

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Author:Lachlan DuncanORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-733781
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.12
ISSN:1535-1793
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
Publisher:CSLI Publications
Place of publication:Stanford, CA
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/12/16
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Contributing Corporation:Joint Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional (2016 : Warschau)
Release Date:2024/09/12
GND Keyword:Quiché-Sprache; Perfekt
Volume:23.2016
Page Number:21
First Page:215
Last Page:235
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International