Abstract
This paper examines an apparently odd situation occurring in three Mayan languages of the Great Kanjobalan branch in the expression of the progressive aspect. Besides showing aspectually conditioned split ergativity, in transitive sentences the verb in these languages is marked with an antipassive suffix. Kaufman (1990) calls this crazy antipassivization. An attempt is made to explain this craziness by examining the semantics of both categories involved: progressive aspect and antipassive voice. The synchronic structure is hypothesized to have arisen as a result of an echeloned reanalysis involving these two phenomena
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