Tseltal

Genetic affiliation: Western Mayan, Tzeltalan
Place: Mexico
Population: 261,084 (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

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

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

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

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

sources

basic recommendations/sources on the language at issue.


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Kaufman, Terrence. 1963. Tzeltal Grammar. Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley. (Doctoral dissertation)
Polian, Gilles. 2013. Gramática del tseltal de Oxchuc. México: CIESAS.
Slocum, Marianna C. 1948. Tzeltal (Mayan) noun and verb morphology. International Journal of American Linguistics 14. 77-86.


lexicon

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

Gómez López, Tomás. 2017. Estudio lexicográfico del tseltal de Villa Las Rosas. Ciudad de México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. (Doctoral dissertation)


texts

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

Polian, Gilles. 2016. Corpus of spoken Central Tseltal. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0000-F93F-7.


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching

Tzeltal in Omniglot