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Publication details [#29838]

Haviland, John B. 1994. "Te xa setel xulem" (the buzzards were circling): Categories of verbal roots in (Zinacantec) Tzotzil. Linguistics 32 (4/5) : 691–741.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949

Annotation

This paper examines formal and semantic grounds for classifying verb roots in Tzotzil 'spatial language', as a necessary preliminary to a serious semantic study of the resulting surface verb forms.