Non-verbal predication
and copular sentences
by Grant Armstrong
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10676509
non-verbal predication, differences to verbal predication, copular sentences, predication vs. specificational sentences
Focus in K'iche'
by Brandon Baird
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10594517
focus marking in K'iche', morphosyntax, optionality, emphatic particle, intonation, prosodic prominence of focus
Beneath the surface:
word order in Mayan
by Lauren Clemens
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10550978
V-initial orders: derivation and reordering; preverbal orders and extraction restrictions; explaining ergativity
Obviation and inf. structure
in 16th century K'iche'
by Michael Dürr
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX
prehispanic writing, colonial period, pronominal prefixes, transitive clauses, pivot and topic, embedding subject into object
The history of numeral classifiers in Mayan
by Danny Law
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX
numeral classifiers, generic classifiers, constituency, mensurative/sortal, positional roots, variation between Mayan, borrowing and spread
slidesTAM morphology in Mayan
by Igor Vinogradov
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10237715
variation between Mayan in TAM morphology; accounts for diversity and diachronic hypotheses; contact, grammaticalization, loss
slidesActive vs. Change-of-State vs. Stative
by Matthes Fürst
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX
predicate types, activities, change-of-state, statives, verbal aspect, person markers, Popol Wuj, xml/python
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Francis Tyers and Robert Henderson. 2021. A corpus of K’iche’ annotated for morphosyntactic structure. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, pages 10–20, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
general description of the corpus
Richardson, I. and Tyers, F. M. 2021. A morphological analyser for Kʼicheʼ. Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural. No. 66, pp. 99—109
presentation of the morphological analyzer; Treebanks
Can Pixabaj, Telma. 2018. Documentation of formal and ceremonial discourses in K’ichee’. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B63F-4.