BengaliThis paper examines the problem of selectional 'matching' effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of lexical insertion under non-terminals. It argues that within the ...
By contrast, in Yucatec Maya, vowel length is used in order to signal meaning differences at the lexical level (see, e.g., Lehmann 1990; Martínez Huchim 2004; Pike 1946). Table 1 presents some examples of phonemic vowel length in Yucatec Maya. Table 1. Yucatec Maya examples of phonemic...