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The acquisition of inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya /
Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q'anjob'al Maya. Q'anjob'al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Trends in language acquisition research ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Acquisition of Inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Sociolinguistic context of Mayan languages, in particular Q'anjob'al; 1.2 Grammatical background of Q'anjob'al; 1.2.1 Verb inflection in imperative clauses; 1.2.2 Verb inflection in indicative clauses; 1.2.2.1 Aspect; 1.2.1.2 Ergative and absolutive morphemes; 1.2.2.3 Status suffixes; 1.2.3 Verb morphology in aspectless complement clauses; 1.2.4 Split Ergativity in Q'anjob'al; 1.2.5 Summary.
- 1.3 Previous Studies on the Acquisition of Mayan Languages1.4 Previous Studies on the Acquisition of Inflection in Mayan languages; 1.4.1 K'iche'; 1.4.2 Yucatec; 1.4.3 Tzotzil; 1.4.4 Tzeltal; 1.5 The present study; 1.6 Conclusion; 1.7 An overview of the book; 2. Theoretical background; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphemes; 2.2.1 Agreement or Tense Omission Model; 2.2.2 The truncation hypothesis; 2.2.3 The Modal Hypothesis; 2.2.4 The Auxiliary Complement Hypothesis; 2.2.5 Imperative Analogue Hypothesis; 2.2.6 Minimal Word Constraint; 2.2.7 Summary.
- 2.3 Research questions2.4 Conclusion; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Subjects; 3.3 Data collection; 3.3.1 Transcriptions; 3.3.2 Coding; 3.3.2.1 Qanform; 3.3.2.2 Qanverb; 3.3.2.3 Qancord; 3.4 Criteria for identifying verbs and clauses; 3.5 Analyses; 3.5.1 Verb form analysis; 3.5.2 Frequency; 3.5.3 Productivity analysis; 3.5.4 Error analysis; 3.5.5 Syllable structures and word order effects in inflectional morphemes; 4. Acquisition of intransitive verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Intransitive verb forms; 4.2.1 Xhuw's intransitive verb forms; 4.2.2 Xhim's intransitive verb forms.
- 4.2.3 Tum's intransitive verb forms4.2.4 Summary; 4.3 Frequency of intransitive inflections; 4.3.1 Frequency of Xhuw's intransitive inflections; 4.3.2 Frequency of Xhim's intransitive inflections; 4.3.3 Frequency of Tum's intransitive inflections; 4.3.4 Summary; 4.4 Productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.1 Xhuw's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.2 Xhim's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.3 Tum's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.4 Summary; 4.5 Errors; 4.5.1 Overextension and omission of status suffixes.
- 4.5.2 Status suffixes with incorrect aspect or incorrect clause4.5.3 Independent pronouns; 4.5.4 Intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses; 4.5.5 Summary; 4.6 Conclusion; 4.7 Relationship of data and theories; 5. Acquisition of transitive verbs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Transitive verb forms; 5.2.1 Xhuw's transitive verb forms; 5.2.2 Xhim's transitive verb forms; 5.2.3 Tum's transitive verb forms; 5.2.4 Summary; 5.3 Frequency of transitive inflection; 5.3.1 Xhuw's frequency of transitive inflections; 5.3.2 Xhim's frequency of transitive inflections.