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Identity-Based Revitalization in the Maya Communities of Guatemala: A Focus on Dress and Language ...
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An analysis and reconstruction of transitive nominalization in Ch’olan languages
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This paper reconstructs the transitive nominalizing suffix *-yaj (IPA */-jax/) in the Ch’olan branch of Mayan languages. I consider data from modern Chol, Chontal, and Ch’orti’ as well as colonial Ch’olti’ to reconstruct the phonological form and syntactic function of this morpheme. This suffix has been called nominalizing antipassive (e.g., Robertson et al. 2010:186-7), although it does not eliminate the object in all cases. Rather, I analyze it as a more general valency-reducing suffix. Each of the languages has undergone small phonological changes, and all of them allow truncation of the suffix to -aj in certain phonological contexts and in fast speech. This paper argues that the glide is underlying, rather than epenthetic, and that the final consonant reconstructs to the velar fricative /x/ rather than the glottal /h/. It also considers the distribution of these nominalizations in each of the languages, and the additional morphology that can appear on them. In particular, there has been a shift between colonial Ch’olti’ and modern Ch’orti’ in the preferred method for marking the thematic roles of the nominalized verb. Ch’olti’ requires a prepositional phrase to reference the patient or stimulus of the verb if it has been derived into an agentive, while Ch’orti’ uses the Set A possessor for the same function. When there is no agentive prefix in Ch'olti', the Set A proclitic can appear before the nominalization, as in Ch’orti’. Chol and Chontal use the *-yaj suffix very similarly to each other. Although there is some debate about the role of nominalizations in split-ergative languages like these, these particular forms act as syntactic nouns, taking nominal morphology including possessors and being incorporated into verbs like any other noun. Further fieldwork on the distribution of the allomorphs in these languages would be particularly useful, as would a closer study focused on the syntactic distribution ; Linguistics
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Ch'olan languages; Linguistics; Mayan languages; Reconstruction
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2152/89218
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Identity-Based Revitalization in the Maya Communities of Guatemala: A Focus on Dress and Language
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The phonetics, phonology, and morphology of Chajul Ixil (Mayan) ...
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The phonetics, phonology, and morphology of Chajul Ixil (Mayan)
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What is Definite and what is not in South Eastern Wastek
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Bates, Jonah. - : University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics, 2019
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MAYAN LANGUAGES EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF KAQCHIKEL AND K’ICHE’ EDUCATORS IN GUATEMALA
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In: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Activity: Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education (2019)
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Statistical and acoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan)
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In: Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 9, No 1 (2018); 9 ; 1868-6354 (2018)
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Red de escuelas Ruk’u’x Qatinamït y revitalización del idioma kaqchikel
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In: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0717-1285, Nº. 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Las lenguas amerindias en Iberoamérica: retos para el siglo XXI), pags. 115-136 (2017)
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Morphological Glossing of Mayan Languages under XML: Preliminary Results ... : Working Paper 4 ...
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An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school
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An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school
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Mayan Language Revitalization, Hip Hop, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
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In: Linguistics Faculty Publications (2016)
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Towards an Analysis of Complex Motion Event Packaging in South Eastern Huastec (Maya, Mexico)
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In: CogniTextes, Vol 9 (2015) (2015)
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Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference : the story of linguistic interaction in the Maya Lowlands
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