A Syntactic Example of Kuryłowicz's Fourth Law of Analogy in Mayan

Traditionally, analogy has been considered to be a phenomenon that works on the morphological level, often involving the paradigmatic leveling of anomalous forms.2 In this regard, Jerzy Kurylowicz has introduced a series of so-called laws which are in fact statements concerning the direction of analogical change. Again, these laws consist of statements about changes that take place on the morphological level and not, for example, on the syntactic level. The fourth law of analogy (K-4) can be stated as follows: "When as a result of a morphological transformation a form undergoes differentiation, the new form corresponds to its primary function (forme de fondation), and the old form is restricted to its secondary function (forme fondee)."3 A quick example of the application of K-4 can be seen in the historical considera-