BARBARA STIEBELSAGENT FOCUS IN MAYAN LANGUAGES wABSTRACT. A subset of the Mayan languages makes use of a specif i c verb formif the subject of a transitive verb is to be focused, questioned or relativized; thisform, which renders the verb morphologically intransitive, though semanticallytransitive, is called ‘agent focus’ among Mayanists. The respective Mayan lan-guages dif f er in the morphosyntactic implementation of agent focus, i.e. theagreement patterns, the marking of the internal argument and the c...

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