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Genetic affiliation: Mayan, Yucatecan
Place: Guatemala, Belize, Mexico
Population: 706,000 (Endangered Languages Project)
Endangerment: at risk (Endangered Languages Project)
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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
 

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Discourse particles
in Mayan languages

by Scott AnderBois

anderbois

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10616178

discourse particles in Mayan languages; mirative and clause type; negative epistemic and intonation; Yucatec Maya
 

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Yucatec Maya Atlas Online
by Barbara Blaha Pfeiler and Stavros Skopeteas

blaha

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10257911

Atlas of Yucatec Maya: online resource, project history, data collection, querying the online data base, create maps, analyze variation

The acquisition of numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya
by Barbara Blaha Pfeiler

blaha2

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

primary role of input in acquisition, early child speech, inanimate numeral classifier, unicity, demonstrative function, acquisition of plural suffix

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Variation and Reanalysis
by Barbara Blaha Pfeiler and Stavros Skopeteas

blahaSkopeteas

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10510570

numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya, generalization of classifiers, multiple classifier constructions, from mensural classifiers to measure nouns, variation in Space

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Animacy and topicality
in Yucatec

by Jürgen Bohnemeyer

bohnemeyer

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10578820

animacy, topicality, sentence production, experimental studies, left dislocation, voice, Yucatec Maya, Yucatecan Spanish
 

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Topic and focus
in Yucatec Maya

by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo

gutierrez

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10607292

sentence topic, subject/object topics; contrastive focus, focus fronting, focus and negation, definites in focus, agent focus
 

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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

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The website
'La lengua maya de Yucatán'

by Christian Lehmann

lehmann

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10252369

Yucatec Maya online: comments on the grammar, onomasiological grammar, semasiological grammar, texts, lexical database

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

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participants' posters

Navigating Linguistic Landscapes
by Vivienne Bauer

bauer

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

language, cultural identity, socio-economic conditions, modeling their interplay based on studies on Yucatec Maya
 

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Numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya and Mandarin Chinese
by Lea George

george

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

classifiers-for-numerals, classifiers-for-nouns, applying the diagnostics to Yucatec Maya and Mandarin Chinese
 

poster

Pluraktionalität in Yukatek Maya
by Arne Goelz

goelz

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

Pluraktionalität, Pluralmarkierung im verbalen vs. im nominalen Bereich, Reduplikation, Suffigierung, Yucatec Maya
 

poster

Pluraktionalität in Yukatek Maya
by Arne Goelz

goelz

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

Pluraktionalität, Pluralmarkierung im verbalen vs. im nominalen Bereich, Reduplikation, Suffigierung, Yucatec Maya
 

poster

A Yucatec-French comparative look on headless relative clauses in focus constructions
by Victor Renard

renard

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

Yucatec Maya, French, focus constructions, clefting account, fronting account, headless relative clauses, negation, inversion

poster

Animacy effects in Yucatec Maya
by Eric Thurau

thurau

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

passivization, left dislocation, animacy effects, corpus frequencies, view from processing
 

poster

Topic prominence in Yucatec Maya
by Zhu Wen

zhu

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

topic-prominent vs subject prominent languages, application of diagnostics to Yucatec Mayan corpus
 

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sources

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


general

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

Lehmann, Christian 2023. La lengua maya de Yucatán. online resource.


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Andrade, Manuel J. 1955. A grammar of Modern Yucatec. Illinois: The University of Chicago Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts.
Bolles, David & Bolles, Alejandro. 2021. A Grammar and Anthology of the Yucatecan Mayan Language. Milford/Cancun.


lexicon

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

Swadesh, Mauricio & Álvarez, Cristina & Bastarrachea, Juan R. 1991. Diccionario de elementos del maya yucateco colonial. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.


texts

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

Can Canul, César & Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo. 2016. Narraciones mayas de Campeche (Maayáaj tsikbalilo’ob Kaampech). Ciudad de México: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas.
Lehmann, Christian. 2023. Textos mayas. In Christian Lehmann, La lengua maya de Yucatán. online resource.
Monforte, Jorge & Dzul , Lázaro & Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo. 2010. Narraciones Mayas. México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas.
Skopeteas, Stavros, Amedee Colli Colli, Daniela Schellenbach, Carolin Brokmann, Florian Fischer, Maya Gálvez Wimmelmann 2020. Yucatec Maya spoken corpus.. The Language Archive, Corpus resource; persistent identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0021-E91B-F.
Stolz, Christel & Stolz, Thomas & Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2012. Maya yucateco de X-Hazil Sur, Quintana Roo (Archivo de las lenguas indígenas de México 30). México D.F.: El Colegio de México.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Lehmann, Nico & Blum, Frederic (eds.) (2021). Collective Corpus of Yucatec Maya (CoCoYum). Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching

Blair, Robert & Vermont-Salas, Refugio. 1965. Spoken Yucatec Maya. Chicago: University of Chicago.
   Soundfiles
   Glossed examples

Yucatec Maya in Omniglot