Kaqchikel

Genetic affiliation: Mayan, K'ichean
Place: Guatemala
Population: 475,889 (2001) (Endangered Languages Project)
Endangerment: vulnerable (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

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

Pluractionality
and verbal derivation

by Robert Henderson

henderson

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

pluractionality, event internal/external; derivational morphology; root vs. stem; valence; verbs, positionals, ideophones

slides

Kaqchikel Agent Focus
and multiple extraction

by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

erlewine

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.

Introducing Mayan Agent Focus, “anti-locality”-based account and counterarguments
 

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

sources

basic recommendations/sources on the language at issue.


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

García Matzar, Pedro and Rodríguez Guaján, José Obispo. 2001. Rukemik ri kaqchikel chi': Gramática Kaqchikel. Guatemala: Cholsamaj.
Kenstowicz, Michael. 2013. Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar. MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages #8.