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Peer reviewedDavies, William D.; Sam-Colop, Luis Enrique – Language, 1990
Verb agreement in the K'iche' agentive voice appears to deviate from the ergative/absolutive system of other Mayan languages, leading some to treat agreement in the agentive as falling outside the regular agreement system as well as to differing views regarding appropriate syntactic representation of the agentive construction with respect to final…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Mayan Languages, Quiche, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
