| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; 1. Terminology; 2. Sources; 3. Methodology; 3.1. Palaeography; 3.2. Concordances; 3.3. Dating Grammatical Changes in the Written Record; 4. Scribes; Note; CHAPTER 2: ORTHOGRAPHY; 1. Phonetic Segments; 2. Orthographic Correspondences; 2.1. Consonants; 2.1.1. Velar and Laryngeal "h"; 2.1.2. Glottal Stop; 2.1.3. Other Velar Consonants; 2.1.4. Glides; 2.1.5. Liquids; 2.1.6. Voiceless Bilabial Stop and Labiodental Fricative; 2.1.7. Ejectives; 2.1.8. Double Consonants; 2.2. Vowels; 2.3. Abbreviations; Notes; CHAPTER 3: PHONOLOGY |
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1. Root-Based Phonological Processes1.1. Canonical Root Shapes; 1.2. Co-Occurrence Restrictions; 1.3. Vowel Grades; 1.4. Affixes; 1.4.1. Prefixes; 1.4.2. Suffixes; 2. Phonological Processes; 2.1. Stems; 2.2. Consonantal Processes; 2.2.1. Identical-Consonant Clusters; 2.2.1.1. Sonorant Clusters; 2.2.1.2. Obstruent Clusters; 2.2.1.3. Fricative Clusters; 2.2.2. Other Consonant Clusters; 2.2.2.1. Prefixes; 2.2.2.2. Suffixes; 2.2.2.2.1. Debuccalization; 2.2.2.2.2. Vowel Insertion; 2.2.2.2.3. Liquid Deletion; 2.2.2.2.4. Interrogatives with -x; 2.2.2.2.5. Nasal Assimilation; 2.3. Vocalic Processes |
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2.3.1. The Special Status of Laryngeals2.3.2. Accent and Pitch; 2.3.2.1. Stress; 2.3.2.2. Pitch Accent; 2.3.2.3. Yucatecan Tonogenesis; 2.3.3. Evidence for Schwa in Colonial Yucatec; 3. Summary of Phonological Changes Through Time; Notes; CHAPTER 4: PRONOUNS; 1. Dependent Pronouns; 1.1. Dependent Pronouns in Colonial Yucatec; 1.2. Dependent Pronouns in Modern Yucatec; 1.3. Historical Change in Clitic Pronouns; 2. Independent Pronouns; 2.1. Independent Pronouns in Colonial Yucatec; 2.2. Independent Pronouns in Modern Yucatec; 2.3. Historical Change in Independent Pronouns |
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3. Indirect Object Pronouns4. Stative Pronouns; 5. Independent Possessive Pronouns; 6. Reflexive Pronouns; 7. Demonstrative Pronouns; 8. Interrogative and Relative Pronouns; 9. Indefinite Pronouns; 9.1. Indefinite Pronouns in Colonial Yucatec; 9.2. Indefinite Pronouns in Modern Yucatec; 9.3. The Historical Status of Topicalized Indefinite Pronouns; 10. Summary of Pronominal Changes Through Time; CHAPTER 5: TENSE/ASPECT AND MOOD; 1. Aspectual Verb Stems; 1.1. Intransitive Verbs; 1.1.1. Aspectual Inflection of Intransitive Verbs in Colonial Yucatec |
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1.1.2. Aspectual Inflection of Intransitive Verbs in Modern Yucatec1.1.3. The Prophetic Future Marked by -om; 1.2. Transitive Verbs; 1.2.1. Aspectual Inflection of Transitive Verbs in Colonial Yucatec; 1.2.2. Aspectual Inflection of Transitive Verbs in Modern Yucatec; 1.2.3. Semantic Implications of Aspectual and Mood Suffixes; 2. Aspectual Head Words and Clitic Particles; 2.1. Aspectual Clitic Particles Associated with the Perfective Stem; 2.1.1. The Functional Difference Between t(i)- and Ø-Perfective Stems |
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2.1.2. Historical Change in Aspectual Clitic Particles Associated with the Perfective Stem |
| Summary |
"Victoria Bricker's painstaking work is based on almost one thousand provenienced notarial documents and letters written by native speakers of Yucatec Maya from the colonial times to the modern day. Because the documents are dated and also specify the town where they were written, Bricker was able to determine when and where grammatical changes first appeared in the language and the trajectory of their movement across the Yucatan peninsula. This exemplary grammar of Yucatec Maya includes examples and careful explanations of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of the language. Bricker's research is distinguished in its treatment of seemingly aberrant spellings of Maya words as clues to the way they were actually pronounced at different times in the past. Her chapters include topics seldom covered, such as deictic particles, affects, and reduplication. Of special interest is a poetic form of reduplication composed of couplets (or triplets) found in documents from each of the centuries, indicating the continuity of this genre from the Colonial to the Modern version of this language"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 08, 2022) |
| Subject |
Mayan languages -- Yucatán Peninsula
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Mayan languages -- Grammar
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Mayan languages -- Texts
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages
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Mayan languages
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Mayan languages -- Grammar
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Central America -- Yucatán Peninsula
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Texts
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017051508 |
| ISBN |
9781607816256 |
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1607816253 |
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