... Key words: indigenous languages, revitalization, language extinction; Guatemala, Itzaj Maya w... more ... Key words: indigenous languages, revitalization, language extinction; Guatemala, Itzaj Maya w ith the increasing penetration of global capitalism into formerly isolated regions of the world, more and more languages and cultures are under threat of extinction. ...
El maya yucateco es hablado aproximadamente por 800,291 habitantes en los estados mexicanos de Yu... more El maya yucateco es hablado aproximadamente por 800,291 habitantes en los estados mexicanos de Yucatán, Campeche y Quintana Roo (INEGI 2001), y en el distrito Corozal de la parte norte de Belice. Es una de las lenguas indígenas más habladas de México y Mesoamérica. A pesar de ser ampliamente estudiada, son pocos los registros de la variación dialectal. Esta investigación está diseñada para documentar la variación lingüística sincrónica del maya yucateco. Tiene la finalidad de llenar este gran vacío en la documentación lingüística como una tarea urgente tomando en consideración que el número de hablantes de esta lengua está en proceso de decrecimiento (Pfeiler 1997, 1999) debido a los factores económicos que han llevado a una gran parte de la población a migrar a centros urbanos o rarísticos. Este cambio se manifiesta no solamente en los movimientos demográficos mayores dentro de la península de Yucatán sino también en un incremento de cambios lingüísticos. Aunque la lengua no se encuentre en proceso de desaparición, es casi seguro que la variación regional de esta lengua está disminuyendo y así será cada vez más difícil hacer inferencias lingüísticas y culturales desde el Dunto de vista histórico. El maya yucateco ha sido registrado por medio de la escritura jeroglífica desde antes del contacto con el español y por medio del alfabeto latino a partir del siglo xvi, así que ha sido documentado durante casi dos milenios y de manera continua. Desde el siglo xvi ha sido enfocada por la investigación lingüística, y la literatura 1 Este proyecto es dirigido por B. Blaha Degler Pfeiler y fue financiado por CONACYT No. 36387). En la recolección de datos participaron el Dr. A. Hofling, la Mtra. C. E. Chuc Uc, la Moa. B. F. Canché Teh, el Mtro. C. Carrillo Carreón, E. Alcé Ciau, M. Sobrino Gómez, L. Pool Balam, I. Naím Corripio y B. Blaha Pfeiler. Actualmente el trabajo de campo se encuentra en la .Lama fase y los análisis están en proceso.
Word order, case marking, and agreement may each serve to mark case relations ofNP arguments to t... more Word order, case marking, and agreement may each serve to mark case relations ofNP arguments to the verb, and to mark inter-NP or constituent relationships. On the basis of a 30-language sample, we demonstrate that while these features are in some ways independent of each other, they are also interdependent in predictable ways, both within particular languages and universally. Specifically, there are extensive tendencies for agreement to be associated with typologically irregular word orders.
Page 1. DISCOURSE FRAMING IN ITZA MAYA NARRATIVE Charles A. Hofling University of Kentucky ABSTRA... more Page 1. DISCOURSE FRAMING IN ITZA MAYA NARRATIVE Charles A. Hofling University of Kentucky ABSTRACT, Framing particles are a pervasive feature of Itz6 Maya discourse. ... 478 Page 2. Discourse Framing in Itz6 479 is distinctive morphosyntactically in two major ways. ...
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2018
Este estudio presenta un bosquejo de la historia de los idiomas de la rama yucatecana y cómo las ... more Este estudio presenta un bosquejo de la historia de los idiomas de la rama yucatecana y cómo las diferencias lingüísticas de los idiomas actuales reflejan sus historias. A base de un estudio comparativo de los idiomas actuales se puede rastrear las diferencias de fonología y morfosintaxis que se desarrollaron en cada idioma desde el proto-yucatecano de 950 d.C. Se muestran muchas innovaciones compartidas entre miembros de la rama, que reflejan separaciones de grupos, incluyendo migraciones, principalmente del norte al sur. También se muestra evidencia, generalmente léxica, del contacto entre los miembros de la rama y con hablantes de idiomas cholanos. El resultado es que cada idioma de la rama tiene características únicas y características compartidas que reflejan sus historias distintas. Original recibido: 2016/02/08Dictamen enviado al autor: 2017/04/12Aceptado: 2017/04/27
Charles Andrew Hofling Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages Lyle Campbell a... more Charles Andrew Hofling Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages Lyle Campbell and Ives Goddard Linguistics This is highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan) language. In addition to its many entries, it also provides an introductory grammatical description, as well as general dictionary features such as parts of speech, examples, cross-references, variant forms, homophones, and indexes. The book also contains special sections on orthography and pronunciation unique to this important Mayan language, as well as translations into English and Spanish. The dictionary has the merits well known from other dictionaries of indigenous languages of the Americas, preserving knowledge systems as they are encoded in vocabulary and providing valuable information for numerous fields, including Mayanists, Mesoamericanists, American Indian scholars, anthropologists, historians, linguists, students of Mayan hieroglyphic writing, and members of modern Mayan communities, among others. This is the second book in the new Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages (SUPAIL) series, a joint venture of the University of Utah Press and the Smithsonian Institution.
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2006
The Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family includes Yukateko, Southern Lakantun, Northern ... more The Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family includes Yukateko, Southern Lakantun, Northern Lakantun, Itzaj, and Mopan, language varieties spoken in the Maya lowlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The branch began to diversify approximately 1,000 years ago. An examination of all modern members of the family, as well as colonial Yukateko, clarifies the members' genetic relationships to one another and suggests that extensive contacts occurred among members of the branch after separation. The Proto-Yukatekan verbal complex is reconstructed, including person marking, status marking, voice marking, verb classes, transitivity, and the aspectual system. Morphosyntactic changes in the verbal complex are also noted for each of the daughter languages.
We are at the exciting point in the decipherment and interpretation of Maya hieroglyphic texts wh... more We are at the exciting point in the decipherment and interpretation of Maya hieroglyphic texts where we can make inferences about the language varieties used by the authors of the script with a sophistication that allows us to infer their grammatical systems-and, just as importantly, the changing identities of Lowland Maya groups and their relationships to one another. By careful sociolinguistic analysis, we can oVer an anthropological account of glyphic variation. To do this, we must pay close attention to both the spatial and temporal dimensions of variation. In the case of the Maya, we know that we are dealing with at least two language groups, Ch'olan-Tzeltalan (or Greater Ch'olan) and Yucatecan; and we know that some speakers of these languages had long-term contact with one another. Martha Macri, in her paper, investigates the interesting topic of numeral classifiers-which, unfortunately, has received little attention of late. She provides some of the first fruits of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project at the University of California at Davis, which she directs. Numeral classifiers vary not only between languages, but also between dialects, and so they may
Cyclicity has been noted as a key feature of Mayan conceptions of time and space from the Classic... more Cyclicity has been noted as a key feature of Mayan conceptions of time and space from the Classic period (AD. 250-900) to the present. Similarly, pattern* of repetition and cyclicity have been noted as characteristic of Mayan discourse structure. In this article cyclicity in worldview and in discourse structure is examined in Itzaj Maya narrative, with emphasis on the importance of the schema of the sun's journey to both.
... Key words: indigenous languages, revitalization, language extinction; Guatemala, Itzaj Maya w... more ... Key words: indigenous languages, revitalization, language extinction; Guatemala, Itzaj Maya w ith the increasing penetration of global capitalism into formerly isolated regions of the world, more and more languages and cultures are under threat of extinction. ...
El maya yucateco es hablado aproximadamente por 800,291 habitantes en los estados mexicanos de Yu... more El maya yucateco es hablado aproximadamente por 800,291 habitantes en los estados mexicanos de Yucatán, Campeche y Quintana Roo (INEGI 2001), y en el distrito Corozal de la parte norte de Belice. Es una de las lenguas indígenas más habladas de México y Mesoamérica. A pesar de ser ampliamente estudiada, son pocos los registros de la variación dialectal. Esta investigación está diseñada para documentar la variación lingüística sincrónica del maya yucateco. Tiene la finalidad de llenar este gran vacío en la documentación lingüística como una tarea urgente tomando en consideración que el número de hablantes de esta lengua está en proceso de decrecimiento (Pfeiler 1997, 1999) debido a los factores económicos que han llevado a una gran parte de la población a migrar a centros urbanos o rarísticos. Este cambio se manifiesta no solamente en los movimientos demográficos mayores dentro de la península de Yucatán sino también en un incremento de cambios lingüísticos. Aunque la lengua no se encuentre en proceso de desaparición, es casi seguro que la variación regional de esta lengua está disminuyendo y así será cada vez más difícil hacer inferencias lingüísticas y culturales desde el Dunto de vista histórico. El maya yucateco ha sido registrado por medio de la escritura jeroglífica desde antes del contacto con el español y por medio del alfabeto latino a partir del siglo xvi, así que ha sido documentado durante casi dos milenios y de manera continua. Desde el siglo xvi ha sido enfocada por la investigación lingüística, y la literatura 1 Este proyecto es dirigido por B. Blaha Degler Pfeiler y fue financiado por CONACYT No. 36387). En la recolección de datos participaron el Dr. A. Hofling, la Mtra. C. E. Chuc Uc, la Moa. B. F. Canché Teh, el Mtro. C. Carrillo Carreón, E. Alcé Ciau, M. Sobrino Gómez, L. Pool Balam, I. Naím Corripio y B. Blaha Pfeiler. Actualmente el trabajo de campo se encuentra en la .Lama fase y los análisis están en proceso.
Word order, case marking, and agreement may each serve to mark case relations ofNP arguments to t... more Word order, case marking, and agreement may each serve to mark case relations ofNP arguments to the verb, and to mark inter-NP or constituent relationships. On the basis of a 30-language sample, we demonstrate that while these features are in some ways independent of each other, they are also interdependent in predictable ways, both within particular languages and universally. Specifically, there are extensive tendencies for agreement to be associated with typologically irregular word orders.
Page 1. DISCOURSE FRAMING IN ITZA MAYA NARRATIVE Charles A. Hofling University of Kentucky ABSTRA... more Page 1. DISCOURSE FRAMING IN ITZA MAYA NARRATIVE Charles A. Hofling University of Kentucky ABSTRACT, Framing particles are a pervasive feature of Itz6 Maya discourse. ... 478 Page 2. Discourse Framing in Itz6 479 is distinctive morphosyntactically in two major ways. ...
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2018
Este estudio presenta un bosquejo de la historia de los idiomas de la rama yucatecana y cómo las ... more Este estudio presenta un bosquejo de la historia de los idiomas de la rama yucatecana y cómo las diferencias lingüísticas de los idiomas actuales reflejan sus historias. A base de un estudio comparativo de los idiomas actuales se puede rastrear las diferencias de fonología y morfosintaxis que se desarrollaron en cada idioma desde el proto-yucatecano de 950 d.C. Se muestran muchas innovaciones compartidas entre miembros de la rama, que reflejan separaciones de grupos, incluyendo migraciones, principalmente del norte al sur. También se muestra evidencia, generalmente léxica, del contacto entre los miembros de la rama y con hablantes de idiomas cholanos. El resultado es que cada idioma de la rama tiene características únicas y características compartidas que reflejan sus historias distintas. Original recibido: 2016/02/08Dictamen enviado al autor: 2017/04/12Aceptado: 2017/04/27
Charles Andrew Hofling Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages Lyle Campbell a... more Charles Andrew Hofling Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages Lyle Campbell and Ives Goddard Linguistics This is highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan) language. In addition to its many entries, it also provides an introductory grammatical description, as well as general dictionary features such as parts of speech, examples, cross-references, variant forms, homophones, and indexes. The book also contains special sections on orthography and pronunciation unique to this important Mayan language, as well as translations into English and Spanish. The dictionary has the merits well known from other dictionaries of indigenous languages of the Americas, preserving knowledge systems as they are encoded in vocabulary and providing valuable information for numerous fields, including Mayanists, Mesoamericanists, American Indian scholars, anthropologists, historians, linguists, students of Mayan hieroglyphic writing, and members of modern Mayan communities, among others. This is the second book in the new Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages (SUPAIL) series, a joint venture of the University of Utah Press and the Smithsonian Institution.
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2006
The Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family includes Yukateko, Southern Lakantun, Northern ... more The Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family includes Yukateko, Southern Lakantun, Northern Lakantun, Itzaj, and Mopan, language varieties spoken in the Maya lowlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The branch began to diversify approximately 1,000 years ago. An examination of all modern members of the family, as well as colonial Yukateko, clarifies the members' genetic relationships to one another and suggests that extensive contacts occurred among members of the branch after separation. The Proto-Yukatekan verbal complex is reconstructed, including person marking, status marking, voice marking, verb classes, transitivity, and the aspectual system. Morphosyntactic changes in the verbal complex are also noted for each of the daughter languages.
We are at the exciting point in the decipherment and interpretation of Maya hieroglyphic texts wh... more We are at the exciting point in the decipherment and interpretation of Maya hieroglyphic texts where we can make inferences about the language varieties used by the authors of the script with a sophistication that allows us to infer their grammatical systems-and, just as importantly, the changing identities of Lowland Maya groups and their relationships to one another. By careful sociolinguistic analysis, we can oVer an anthropological account of glyphic variation. To do this, we must pay close attention to both the spatial and temporal dimensions of variation. In the case of the Maya, we know that we are dealing with at least two language groups, Ch'olan-Tzeltalan (or Greater Ch'olan) and Yucatecan; and we know that some speakers of these languages had long-term contact with one another. Martha Macri, in her paper, investigates the interesting topic of numeral classifiers-which, unfortunately, has received little attention of late. She provides some of the first fruits of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project at the University of California at Davis, which she directs. Numeral classifiers vary not only between languages, but also between dialects, and so they may
Cyclicity has been noted as a key feature of Mayan conceptions of time and space from the Classic... more Cyclicity has been noted as a key feature of Mayan conceptions of time and space from the Classic period (AD. 250-900) to the present. Similarly, pattern* of repetition and cyclicity have been noted as characteristic of Mayan discourse structure. In this article cyclicity in worldview and in discourse structure is examined in Itzaj Maya narrative, with emphasis on the importance of the schema of the sun's journey to both.
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