Kerry Hull

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kerry Hull plays a role.

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Hull, Kerry 2018 Semantic generalization in Ch’orti’ Mayan numeral classifiersThe Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 77–106 | Chapter
This study examines the process of linguistic change in the classification system of Ch’orti’ Mayan, a language spoken by roughly 12,000 people in southern Guatemala. I trace the origin of the classifier -kojt from its original meaning of “quadruped”, based on the positional root kojt‑ “kneel… read more