Complex Predicates in Q’anjob’al (Maya)

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Complex Predicates in Q’anjob’al (Maya) is written by Eladio Mateo Toledo and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004289984 (ISBN 10) and 9789004289987 (ISBN 13).

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.