Tzotzil

Genetic affiliation: Western Mayan, Tzeltalan
Place: Mexico
Population: 229,203 (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

Obviation
in Tsotsil

by Judith Aissen

aissen

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

identify S and O; recoverability and two 3rd persons; prominence scales; disambiguation by voice; relation to obviation
 

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

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

participants' posters

Investigating Tada's Generalization
by Luka Anlauff

anlauff

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

cross-reference markers: high and low absolutives, syntactic ergativity, ergative extraction constraint
 
 

poster

sources

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


sources

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


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Aissen, Judith. 1987. Tzotzil Clause Structure. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Cowan, Marion M. 1969. Tzotzil grammar. Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.
Jacobs, Kenneth & Longacre, Robert E. 1967. Patterns and rules in Tzotzil grammar. Foundations in Language 3. 325-389.
Sarles, Harvey B. 1966. A Descriptive Grammar of the Tzotzil Language As Spoken in San Bartolome De Los Llanos, Chiapas, Mexico.. Illinois: University of Chicago. (Doctoral dissertation)


lexicon

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

Brown, Cecil H.. 2009. Zinacantán Tzotzil vocabulary.. in Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Laughlin, Robert M. & Haviland, John B. 1988. Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.


texts

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

Cowan, Marion M. 1955. San Andrés Tzotzil Texts. Mexico: Bartholomew Collection of Unpublished Materials, SIL International.
Weathers, Nadine. 1950. Morphological analysis of a Tzotzil (Mayan) text. International Journal of American Linguistics 16. 91-98.


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching

Tsotsil in Omniglot