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Itzaj Maya grammar /

"The Itzaj Maya language is a member of the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mopan, and Lakantun. Many Classic Maya hieroglyphic texts were written in an earlier form of these languages, as were a number of impo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hofling, Charles Andrew
Otros Autores: Tesucún, Félix Fernando
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Phonology 1
  • 1.1. Phonemic Inventory and Orthography 2
  • 1.2. Stress, Juncture, and Pause 6
  • 1.3. Phonological Processes 8
  • 1.4. Phonotactics 25
  • 1.5. Spanish Loan Words 33
  • Morphology 34
  • 2. Person Markers and Pronouns 35
  • 2.1. Person Markers (Dependent Pronouns): Set A and Set B 35
  • 2.2. Independent Pronouns 39
  • 3. Verbal Complex 43
  • 3.1. Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Status 44
  • 3.2. Verb Root Classes 52
  • 3.3. Verb Derivation and Voice 55
  • 3.4. Sensory and Cognitive Verbs 75
  • 3.5. Verb Compounds 76
  • 4. Nominal Morphology 85
  • 4.1. Noun Roots 87
  • 4.2. Nominal Derivation 103
  • 4.3. Nominal Inflection and Modification 117
  • 4.4. Compound Nouns 120
  • 4.5. Noun Phrases 130
  • 4.6. Locative Expressions 136
  • 5. Numerals and Numeral Classifiers 141
  • 5.1. Numerals 141
  • 5.2. Numeral Classifiers 142
  • 5.3. Affixation on Numeral Classifier & Noun Compounds 145
  • 5.4. Numeral Classifier Compounds 146
  • 6. Adjectives, Adverbs, and Participles 147
  • 6.1. Adjectives 148
  • 6.2. Adverbs 158
  • 6.3. Participles 165
  • 6.4. Adjective and Adverb Compounds 173
  • 6.5. Intensifiers 179
  • 6.6. Quantifiers 179
  • 6.7. Plural Marking 179
  • 7. Particles and Exclamations 181
  • 7.1. Nominal 181
  • 7.2. Locative 182
  • 7.3. Prepositions 182
  • 7.4. Manner and Intensity 182
  • 7.5. Temporal 183
  • 7.6. Modal-epistemic 184
  • 7.7. Negative 185
  • 7.8. Interrogative/Relative 186
  • 7.9. Conjunctions and Subordinators 188
  • 7.10. Exclamatory Words 189
  • Morphosyntax, Syntax, and Discourse
  • 8. Typological Overview 190
  • 8.1. Order of Major Constituents 190
  • 8.2. Modifier + Modified Order 196
  • 8.3. Modified + Modifier Order 198
  • 8.4. Prepositional Phrases 200
  • 8.5. Adverbs 200
  • 8.6. Stative, Existential, and Equational Constructions 202
  • 8.7. Interrogation 203
  • 8.8. Negation 203
  • 9. Nominal Morphosyntax 205
  • 9.2. Unmodified Nouns 206
  • 9.3. Noun Classifiers 207
  • 9.4. Proper Nouns, Titles, and Honorifics 214
  • 9.5. Numerals and Numeral Classifiers 219
  • 9.6. Plurals 227
  • 9.7. Adjectives 234
  • 9.8. Determiner a' 247
  • 9.9. Topic Marker -e' 249
  • 9.10. Partitive Marker -i'ij 251
  • 9.11. Contrastive Focus 252
  • 9.12. Demonstrative Adjectives 253
  • 10. Possession 255
  • 10.1. Unmarked Possessive Constructions 255
  • 10.2. Marked Possessive Constructions 262
  • 10.3. Existential Constructions with yaan 286
  • 11. Pronouns in Discourse 288
  • 11.1. Repetition and Redundancy of Pronominal Information 288
  • 11.2. Information Flow, Reference Tracking, and Discourse Highlighting 288
  • 11.3. Indirect Object Pronouns 295
  • 11.4. Independent Possessive Pronouns 298
  • 11.5. Demonstrative Pronouns 299
  • 12. Locatives 303
  • 12.1. Distal Locatives 303
  • 12.2. Proximal Locative 308
  • 12.3. Ostensive Demonstratives 310
  • 12.4. Locative Prepositions 310
  • 13. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 312
  • 13.1. Sentential Position 312
  • 13.2. Basic Prepositions: PREP + NP 313
  • 13.3. ti' + Relational Noun 326
  • 13.4. Preposition (/Relational Noun) ti'ij NP 327
  • 14. Adverbials 329
  • 14.1. Sentential Position 329
  • 14.2. Temporal Adverbs 329
  • 14.3. Manner Adverbs 338
  • 14.4. Modal-Epistemic Adverbs 344
  • 14.5. Adverbial Focus with -ik-il [similar] -ik [similar] -il 352
  • 15. Verbal Morphosyntax I: Tense, Aspect, and Mood 356
  • 15.1. Tense-Aspect-Mood 356
  • 15.2. Incompletive Status 357
  • 15.3. Completive Aspect and Status 367
  • 15.4. Irrealis Modalities 371
  • 15.5. Adverbial Incorporation 382
  • 16. Verbal Morphosyntax II: Transitivity and Voice 384
  • 16.1. Transitive vs. Intransitive 384
  • 16.2. Active Transitive 384
  • 16.3. Intransitive Voices 386
  • 16.4.a Topicality and Clause Linkage 399
  • 17. Statives and Equational Constructions 401
  • 17.1. Statives 401
  • 17.2. Stative + Nominal 402
  • 17.3. Nominal + Stative 403
  • 17.4. Comparative Constructions 405
  • 17.5. Contrastive-Focus Constructions 407
  • 17.6. Existential yaan 407
  • 18. Interrogation 418
  • 18.1. Intonation 418
  • 18.2. Yes-No Questions 420
  • 18.3. Interrogative-Word Questions 421
  • 18.4. Interrogative Focus and Scope 428
  • 19. Negation 432
  • 19.1. General Negative ma' 432
  • 19.2. (mix) ... mix, '(neither) ... nor' 440
  • 19.3. Negative Focus and Scope 442
  • Complex Sentences
  • 20. Coordination 445
  • 20.1. Parataxis 445
  • 20.2. Morphosyntactically-marked Coordination 447
  • 21. Conditional Clauses 460
  • 21.1. Affirmative Conditional 460
  • 21.2. Negative Conditional: waj ma' (...-e') 462
  • 21.3. Counterfactual Conditional: waj V Kuchij (...-e') 464
  • 21.4. Conditional with ka'ax ...-e', 'even if' 466
  • 22. Relative Clauses 468
  • 22.1. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses 468
  • 22.2. Restrictive Relative Clauses 469
  • 22.3. Reduced Relative Clauses 482
  • 22.4. Contrastive-focus Constructions 483
  • 23. Complements 486
  • 23.1. Subject Complements 486
  • 23.2. Object Complements 488
  • 24. Adverbial Clauses 508
  • 24.1. Temporal Adverbial Clauses 508
  • 24.2. Manner Adverbial Clauses 521
  • 24.3. Subordination with Intransitive Matrix Verbs and Statives 523
  • 24.4. Purpose Clauses 526
  • 25. Style and Poetics 535
  • 25.1. Sound Symbolism and Sound Play 535
  • 25.2. Parallelism and Repetition 539
  • 25.3. Quoted Speech and Dialogic Repetition 543
  • 25.4. Discourse Unit Boundaries 551
  • 25.5. Discourse Genres 558
  • 25.4. Cultural Schemata 559
  • Appendix Texts 561
  • Text 1. Yellow Crocodile, the Man-eater 562
  • Text 2. Bandits (Wit's) 579.