Morphology

Goals

The units of this section offer insights to morphological phenomena or issues concerning the interaction between morphology and syntax/semantics.

Lecturers

Igor Vinogradov

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Mexico City, MX

units

Pluractionality
and verbal derivation
by Robert Henderson

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

pluractionality, event internal/external; derivational morphology; root vs. stem; valence; verbs, positionals, ideophones

slides

TAM 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

slides

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sources

basic recommendations

Henderson, Robert. 2012. Ways of pluralizing events. PhD diss., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Henderson, Robert. 2017. Pluractionality in Mayan. In Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado (eds.), The Mayan Languages, 362-377. London, New York: Routledge.
Pedro Mateo, Pedro. 2015. The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Mayan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pérez González, Jaime. 2012. Predicados expresivos e ideófonos en tseltal. MA thesis. CIESAS.
Polian, Gilles. 2017. Morphology. In Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado (eds.), The Mayan Languages, 201-225. London, New York: Routledge.
Vinogradov, Igor. 2016. Tense/aspect/mood systems of Cholan-Tseltalan Mayan languages. Munich: Lincom.