Ch’ol

Genetic affiliation: Western Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan
Place: Mexico
Population: 128,240 (Endangered Languages Project)
Endangerment: at risk (Endangered Languages Project)
Glottolog 4.8 edited by Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.


units

Non-verbal predication
and copular sentences

by Grant Armstrong

armstrong

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10676509

non-verbal predication, differences to verbal predication, copular sentences, predication vs. specificational sentences
 

slides

Beneath the surface:
word order in Mayan

by Lauren Clemens

clemens

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10550978

V-initial orders: derivation and reordering; preverbal orders and extraction restrictions; explaining ergativity
 

slides

Split ergativity
and nominalization in Mayan

by Yusuke Imanishi

imanishi

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.

split ergativity in Mayan, split ergativity and nominalization, variation in alignment and nominalization

slides

Numerals and classifiers
in Mayan languages

by Carol Rose Little

little

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

numeral classifiers in the world's languages, function of classifiers, Ch'ol numeral classifiers, Chuj numeral and noun classifiers, specificity effects

slides

TAM morphology in Mayan
by Igor Vinogradov
 

vinogradov

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10237715

variation between Mayan in TAM morphology; accounts for diversity and diachronic hypotheses; contact, grammaticalization, loss

slides

The history of numeral classifiers in Mayan
by Danny Law

law

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

numeral classifiers, generic classifiers, constituency, mensurative/sortal, positional roots, variation between Mayan, borrowing and spread

slides

Mayan classificatory systems
by Roberto Zavala Maldonado


zavala

DOI: doi/10.5281/zenodo.10475924

numeral/noun/genitive classifiers and noun classes in Mayan, classifiers and number, multiple classifiers, general classifier, origin and development

slides

participants' posters

Numeral classifiers in Ch'ol and Chuukese
by Joshua Kalempouw

kalempouw

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

classifiers-for-numerals, classifiers-for-nouns, applying the predictions to Yucatec Maya and Chuukese
 

poster

sources

The following list contains basic recommendations/sources on the language at issue.


general

general introductions, encyclopedias, literature, writing, history, miscellaneous

Villa Rojas, Alfonso. 1969. Maya lowlands: The Chontal, Chol, and Kekchi. In Evon Z. Vogt (ed.), Ethnology: Part One, 230-243. Austin: University of Texas Press.


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Vázquez Álvarez, Juan Jesús. 2011. A grammar of Chol, a Mayan language. PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin.
Coon, Jessica. 2017. Ch'ol. In Judith Aissen and Nora C. England and Roberto Zavala Maldonado (eds.), The Mayan Languages, London & New York: Routledge. 648-684.


lexicon

dictionaries, headword search tools, further sources of information about the lexicon

Aulie, Evelyn W., H. Wilbur Aulie, and Emily F. Stairs 2009. Diccionario Ch'ol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla. (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", 121.), 3rd ed. Mexico City: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Hopkins, Nicholas A. and Ausencio Cruz Guzmán, and J. Kathryn Josserand. 2008. A Chol (Mayan) Vocabulary from 1789. International Journal of American Linguistics. 74. 83–114.


texts

corpora of written language, online data bases, text collections, spoken data collections

Anderson, Arabelle. 1957. Two Chol texts. Tlalocan 3, 313-316.
Whittaker, Arabelle and Viola Warkentin. 1965. Chol texts on the supernatural. (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields, 13.) Norman, Oklahoma: SIL/University of Oklahoma.
online texts of the Latin America Institute at the Free University of Berlin


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching

Ch'ol in Omniglot