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| ISBN: | 9789027268303
9027268304
9027244030
9789027244031
9789027244031
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q'anjob'al Maya. Q'anjob'al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject and object inflections display a split ergative pattern. The subjects of intransitive verbs with aspect markers take absolutive markers, whereas the subjects of aspectless intransitive verbs take ergative markers. The acquisition of three types of clauses is explored in detail (imperatives, indicativ.
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| Other form: | Print version: Pedro, Pedro Mateo. Acquisition of inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027244031
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