New perspectives in Mayan linguistics : [proceedings of SSILA 2008: the Society for the Study of Indigenous languages of the Americas] / edited by Heriberto Avelino, Jessica Coon and Elisabeth Norcliffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avelino Becerra, Heriberto, 1968-

Coon, Jessica.

Norcliffe, Elisabeth.

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Series:

MIT working papers in linguistics ; v. 59.

MIT working papers in linguistics ; 59

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Maya language--Congresses.

Maya language.

Maya language--Dialects--Congresses.

Maya language--Dialects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : [MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy], [2008]

Contents:

Intonational patterns of topic and focus constructions in Yucatec Maya / Heriberto Avelino

Agentivity and status in Yukatekan languages / Henrik Bergqvist

Positional roots and case absorption / Jessica Coon and Omer Preminger

Tonal dialects and consonant-pitch interaction in Yucatec Maya / Melissa Frazier

Focus, agent focus and relative clauses in Yucatec Maya / Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Jorge Monforte

Voice and auxiliaries in Mopan Maya / Charles Andrew Hofling

Stylistics of the second person singular independent pronoun in Kaqchikel / Judith Maxwell

Emerging subject properties of Kiche experiencers / Pamela Munro

Revisiting agent focus in Yucatec / Elisabeth Norcliffe

Distinctness effects on vos order: evidence from Yucatec Maya / Stavros Skopeteas and Elisabeth Verhoeven.

Notes:

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

317987500