The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya
Pedro Mateo Pedro
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.
Pedro Mateo Pedro
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pedro Mateo Pedro plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Languages of North America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Indeterminate pronouns in Kaqchikel Linguistic Variation 24:1, pp. 116–163 | Article
This paper investigates the morphology, syntax, and semantics of five non-interrogative constructions that involve wh-expressions in Kaqchikel, a Mayan language of the K’ichean branch spoken in Guatemala. We focus on the properties of maximal free relative clauses, existential free relative… read more
2014 The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan Linguistic Variation 14:2, pp. 179–242 | Article
Many morphologically ergative languages display asymmetries in the extraction of core arguments: while absolutive arguments (transitive objects and intransitive subjects) extract freely, ergative arguments (transitive subjects) cannot. This falls under the label “syntactic ergativity” (see, e.g.… read more
2013 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 307–336 | Article
Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses. read more