On Copular Sentences in Yucatec Maya *

Following traditional syntactic approaches to predication, a plausible assumption is that there is n othing more t han a small c lause associated w ith some t ype of default ( ≈ stative) tense/aspect (Williams 1980; Stowell 1981, 1983 ; Moro 1997; Benmamoun These t ypes o f sen tences r aise i nteresting q uestions ab out the clause structure and morphosyntax of predication. In this paper the primary i ssue addressed is whether we n eed a sy ntactic head ( Pred) t o mediate t he relationship between t he predicate and the argument in these sentences.