Abstract
AbstractThe article deals with the morphosyntactic features of the aspectual category of progressive in K’iche’an languages. The analysis is carried out using methods of intragenetic typology. It is proposed to clarify Vinogradov’s classification of progressive in the Mayan languages in relation to the K’iche’an group. Three types of K’iche’an progressive as well as three strategies for the distribution of ergative–absolutive markers in the progressive are proposed. The boundary between the uniclausal and biclausal analyses of complex aspect constructions in Mayan languages is proposed. The application to K’iche’an languages Robert Dixon’s generalization for aspectually based split ergativity is also described. Three strategies of verb argument marking in the progressive constructions are determined. It was found out that all aspectually conditioned splits in the ergative–absolutive strategy of argument marking in K’iche’an languages are observed in progressive (or historically progressive) constructions.
Highlights
Introduction and backgroundThe current work is organized as follows
The status suffix, or category suffix, in the Mayan languages is a grammeme of the status category
A boundary was drawn between the uniclausal and biclausal analyses of progressive constructions in K’iche’an languages. All of this helped to apply Robert Dixon’s generalization of aspect-based split ergativity to K’iche’an languages and identify three strategies of argument marking in progressive constructions
Summary
The languages of the K’iche’an group are part of the K’iche’an-Mamean branch of the Mayan language family (Campbell and Kaufman 1985). Morphosyntactic features of progressive in the K’iche’an languages of the Mayan family 595. Progressive in K’iche’an languages, as in many other Mayan languages, is not directly part of the morphological characteristics of the verb, but is expressed by lexical or syntactic means. The main objectives of this work are, first, to identify points of cross-linguistic variation of progressive constructions in K’iche’an languages. Observation of argument marking strategies in K’iche’an progressive constructions, as well as identification of aspect-based splits
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