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‘She had just cut/broken off her head’: Cutting and breaking verbs in Tzeltal by Penelope Brown is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is ‘She had just cut/broken off her head’: Cutting and breaking verbs in Tzeltal about?
This paper describes the lexical resources for expressing events of cutting and breaking (C&B hereafter) in the Mayan language Tzeltal. This notional set of verbs is not a class in any grammatical sense; C&B verbs are formally undistinguishable from many other transitive state-change verbs. But they nicely reveal the characteristic specificity of Tzeltal verb semantics: C&B actions are finely di¤erentiated according to the spatial and textural properties of the theme object, with no superordinate term meaning either 'cut in general' or 'break in general'. The paper characterizes the semantics of these verbs and shows that in the great majority of cases it does not predict their argument structure.
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- Author
- Penelope Brown
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)