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This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

North and Central American indian languages --- Grammar --- Maya language --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Grammar.

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The Athabaskan language family, which constitutes the largest group of Amerindian languages, poses linguistic challenges. This is a collection of articles on syntax, semantics and morphology as well as a look at the languages' struggle to survive.

Athapascan languages --- Navajo language --- Dine language --- Navaho language --- Navajú language --- Athabascan languages --- Na-Dene languages --- Tinne languages --- North and Central American indian languages --- Athapascan languages.

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Hopi language --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Hopitu language --- Moki language --- Shinumo language --- Shoshonean languages --- English. --- North and Central American indian languages

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This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic property

Language acquisition. --- Indians of Central America --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Languages. --- Acquisition --- North and Central American indian languages --- Indigenous languages, Mesoamerica, Language Acquisition.

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Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality. And, more generally, it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociolinguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- North and Central American indian languages --- Guatemala --- Language and culture --- Language and culture. --- Mayas --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Languages. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics