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Download full textPye, Clifton – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
K'iche' Maya divides the breaking and cutting domains into much more specific actions than either English or Spanish. K'iche' does not have a general word for breaking that can be substituted for the specialized breaking verbs in the way that English "break" can be used to describe more specific senses of picking, popping, smashing, or…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Lexicology, Mayan Languages, Morphology (Languages)
