University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Brown University, USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Middlebury College, USA
University at Buffalo, USA
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico, and University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Obviation
in Tsotsil
by Judith 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
Discourse particles
in Mayan languages
by Scott AnderBois
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10616178
discourse particles in Mayan languages; mirative and clause type; negative epistemic and intonation; Yucatec Maya
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
Animacy and topicality
in Yucatec
by Jürgen Bohnemeyer
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10578820
animacy, topicality, sentence production, experimental studies, left dislocation, voice, Yucatec Maya, Yucatecan Spanish
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
Topic and focus
in Yucatec Maya
by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10607292
sentence topic, subject/object topics; contrastive focus, focus fronting, focus and negation, definites in focus, agent focus
Re-aligning the A's
in discourse in Mocho'
by Jaime Pérez González
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10623830
language and speakers: Mocho'; preferred argument structure; inverse voice in discourse; corpus data
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Baird, Brandon. 2018. Syntactic and Prosodic Contrastive Focus Marking in K’ichee’. International Journal of American Linguistics 84(3), 295-325.
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