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Publication details [#29836]

Lucy, John A. 1994. The role of semantic value in lexical comparison: Motion and position roots in Yucatec Maya. Linguistics 32 (4/5) : 623–656.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical semantics1 | morphology | predicate | space deixis | verb

Language as a subject

Mayan, Yucatan

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This approach to lexical semantics emphasizes the importance of morphosyntactic distributional patterns in defining the semantics of spatial predicates in Yucatec Maya.