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Dissociating Effects of Scrambling and Topicalization within the Left Frontal and Temporal Language Areas: An fMRI Study in Kaqchikel Maya [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Some natural languages grammatically allow different types of changing word orders, such as object scrambling and topicalization. Scrambling and topicalization are more related to syntax and semantics/phonology, respectively.
Shinri Ohta +4 more
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Optional agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil (Mayan) is syntactic
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Some Mayan languages display optional verbal agreement with 3pl arguments (Dayley1985; Henderson2009; England2011). Focusing on novel data from Santiago Tz’utujil (ST), we demonstrate that this optionality is not reducible to phonological or ...
Levin Theodore +2 more
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Cognitive Constraints and Island Effects. [PDF]
Language (Baltim), 2010 Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for.
Hofmeister P, Sag IA.
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This paper uses data from the Mayan languages to evaluate expanded [NFL theories derived from the work of Pollock (1989) and Chomsky (1995). The combination of ergative agreement with subject agreement closer to the verb than object agreement pose ...
Pye, Clifton
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The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This paper assesses predictions for the acquisition of Mayan verbal inflections derived from structural, comparative and metrical theories. The structuralist theory of Wexler (1998) fails to predict K'iche' (Kiche) children's use of the language's ...
Pye, Clifton
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Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing. The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing [PDF]
, 2000 Catalogue of an exhibition conducted in conjunction with the Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium held at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.
Palaima, Thomas G. +2 more
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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2012 The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock, Katherine +2 more
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Comments on Austronesian nominalism: A Mayan perspective [PDF]
, 2017 In the conclusion of his article on Austronesian voice and extraction, Kaufman suggests the possibility of extending his analysis of extraction facts in Tagalog to other ‘‘syntactically ergative’’ languages (i.e. languages in which ergative arguments are
Coon Burgess, Jessica Louise
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The roots and structures of possessive noun classes
IsoglossIn both the typological literature and literature on formal syntax and semantics, a division is drawn between nouns that are inalienably possessed such as body parts and kinship terms and nouns that are alienably possessed such as owned materials.
Grant Armstrong
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Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya : on the Interplay of prosody and syntax [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables.
Kügler, Frank +2 more
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