University of Utah Press, 2000 eISBN: 978-1-60781-218-0 | Paper: 978-0-87480-666-3 Library of Congress Classification PM3969.5.I89H6 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 497.41527
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The Itzaj Maya language is a member of the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mopan, and Lakantum. Many classic Maya hieroglyphic texts were written in an earlier form of these languages, as were many important colonial documents. In addition to being a valuable record of ancient language, Andrew Hofling’s Itzaj Maya Grammar contributes greatly to the study of these older documents.
This exemplary grammar completes a basic documentation that began with Itzaj Maya Texts and Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary. It’s coverage of the linguistic structures of Itzaj includes the phonological, morphophonological, and syntactic structures. Each morphological and grammatical construction is carefully explained, with additional examples of each construction included.
Itzaj Maya Grammar is a landmark contribution to the study of discourse in Maya language. When used with Hofling’s previous texts, it provides a thoroughly dynamic documentation of the language, useful to all interested in the study of Yukatejan languages or linguistics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Charles A. Hofling is professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University
REVIEWS
"With this volume, Andy Hofling has achieved the Boasian goal for language documentation that is so seldom met these days: a dictionary, a text collection, and now a grammar....In both range of material covered and depth of coverage, it is by far the most complete grammar of any Mayan language and rivals any indigenous language grammar."—Jill Brody, Louisiana State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
1.
Phonology
1.0.
Contents
1.1.
Phonemic Inventory and Orthography
1.2.
Stress, Juncture, and Pause
1.3.
Phonological Processes
1.4.
Phonotactics
1.5.
Spanish Loan Words
MORPHOLOGY
2.
Person Markers and Pronouns
2.0.
Contents
2.1.
Person Markers (Dependent Pronouns): Set A and Set B
2.2.
Independent Pronouns
3.
Verbal Complex
3.0.
Contents
3.1.
Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Status
3.2.
Verb Root Classes
3.3.
Verb Derivation and Voice
3.4.
Sensory and Cognitive Verbs
3.5.
Verb Compounds
4.
Nominal Morphology
4.0.
Contents
4.1.
Noun Roots
4.2.
Nominal Derivation
4.3.
Nominal Inflection and Modification
4.4.
Compound Nouns
4.5.
Noun Phrases
4.6.
Locative Expressions
5.
Numerals and Numeral Classifiers
5.0.
Contents
5.1.
Numerals
5.2.
Numeral Classifiers
5.3.
Affixation on Numeral Classifier & Noun Compounds
5.4.
Numeral Classifier Compounds
6.
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Participles
6.0.
Contents
6.1.
Adjectives
6.2.
Adverbs
6.3.
Participles
6.4.
Adjective and Adverb Compounds
6.5.
Intensifiers
6.6.
Quantifiers
6.7.
Plural Marking
7.
Particles and Exclamations
7.0.
Contents
7.1.
Nominal
7.2.
Locative
7.3.
Prepositions
7.4.
Manner and Intensity
7.5.
Temporal
7.6.
Modal-epistemic
7.7.
Negative
7.8.
Interrogative/Relative
7.9.
Conjunctions and Subordinators
7.10.
Exclamatory Words
MORPHOSYNTAX, SYNTAX, AND DISCOURSE
8.
Typological Overview
8.0.
Contents
8.1
Order of Major Constituents
8.2.
Modifier + Modified Order
8.3.
Modified + Modifier Order
8.4.
Prepositional Phrases
8.5.
Adverbs
8.6.
Stative, Existential, and Equational Constructions
8.7.
Interrogation
8.8.
Negation
9.
Nominal Morphosyntax
9.0.
Contents
9.1.
Introduction
9.2.
Unmodified Nouns
9.3.
Noun Classifiers
9.4.
Proper Nouns, Titles, and Honorifics
9.5.
Numerals and Numeral Classifiers
9.6.
Plurals
9.7.
Adjectives
9.8.
The Determiner a'
9.9.
The Topic Marker -e'
9.10.
The Partitive Marker -i'ij
9.11.
Contrastive Focus
9.12.
Demonstrative Adjectives
10.
Possession
10.0.
Contents
10.1.
Unmarked Possessive Constructions
10.2.
Marked Possessive Constructions
10.3.
Existential Constructions with yaan
11.
Pronouns in Discourse
11.0.
Contents
11.1.
Repetition and Redundancy of Pronominal Information
11.2.
Information Flow, Reference Tracking, and Discourse Highlighting
11.3.
Indirect Object Pronouns
11.4.
Independent Possessive Pronouns
11.5.
Demonstrative Pronouns
12.
Locatives
12.0.
Contents
12.1.
Distal Locatives
12.2.
Proximal Locative
12.3.
Ostensive Demonstratives
12.4.
Locative Prepositions
13.
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
13.0.
Contents
13.1.
Sentential Position
13.2.
Basic Prepositions: PREP + NP
13.3.
ti' + Relational Noun
13.4.
Preposition (/Relational Noun) ti'ij NP
14.
Adverbials
14.0.
Contents
14.1.
Sentential Position
14.2.
Temporal Adverbs
14.3.
Manner Adverbs
14.4.
Modal-Epistemic Adverbs
14.5.
Adverbial Focus with -ik-il ~ -ik ~ -il
15.
Verbal Morphosyntax I: Tense, Aspect, and Mood
15.0.
Contents
15.1.
Tense-Aspect-Mood
15.2.
Incompletive Status
15.3.
Completive Aspect and Status
15.4.
Irrealis Modalities
15.5.
Adverbial Incorporation
16.
Verbal Morphosyntax II: Transitivity and Voice
16.0.
Contents
16.1.
Transitive vs. Intransitive
16.2.
Active Transitive
16.3.
Intransitive Voices
16.4.
Topicality and Clause Linkage
17.
Statives and Equational Constructions
17.0.
Contents
17.1.
Statives
17.2.
Stative + Nominal
17.3.
Nominal + Stative
17.4.
Comparative Constructions
17.5.
Contrastive-Focus Constructions
17.6.
Existential yaan
18.
Interrogation
18.0.
Contents
18.1.
Intonation
18.2.
Yes-No Questions
18.3.
Interrogative-Word Questions
18.4.
Interrogative Focus and Scope
19.
Negation
19.0.
Contents
19.1.
General Negative ma'
19.2.
(mix … mix, '(neither) … nor')
19.3.
Negative Focus and Scope
COMPLEX SENTENCES
20.
Coordination
20.0.
Contents
20.1.
Parataxis
20.2.
Morphosyntactically-marked Coordination
21.
Conditional Clauses
21.0.
Contents
21.1.
Affirmative Conditional
21.2.
Negative Conditional: waj ma' (… -e')
21.3.
Counterfactual Conditional: waj V kuchij (… -e')
21.4.
Conditional with ka'ax … -e', 'even if'
22.
Relative Clauses
22.0.
Contents
22.1.
Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
22.2.
Restrictive Relative Clauses
22.3.
Reduced Relative Clauses
22.4.
Contrastive-focus Constructions
23.
Complements
23.0.
Contents
23.1.
Subject Complements
23.2.
Object Complements
24.
Adverbial Clauses
24.0.
Contents
24.1.
Temporal Adverbial Clauses
24.2.
Manner Adverbial Clauses
24.3.
Subordination with Intransitive Matrix Verbs and Statives
24.4.
Purpose Clauses
25.
Style and Poetics
25.0.
Contents
25.1.
Sound Symbolism and Sound Play
25.2.
Parallelism and Repetition
25.3.
Quoted Speech and Dialogic Repetition
25.4.
Discourse Unit Boundaries
25.5.
Discourse Genres
25.6.
Cultural Schemata
Appendix:
Texts
Text 1.
The Yellow Crocodile, the Man-eater
Text 2.
The Bandits (Wit's)
References
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University of Utah Press, 2000 eISBN: 978-1-60781-218-0 Paper: 978-0-87480-666-3
The Itzaj Maya language is a member of the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mopan, and Lakantum. Many classic Maya hieroglyphic texts were written in an earlier form of these languages, as were many important colonial documents. In addition to being a valuable record of ancient language, Andrew Hofling’s Itzaj Maya Grammar contributes greatly to the study of these older documents.
This exemplary grammar completes a basic documentation that began with Itzaj Maya Texts and Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary. It’s coverage of the linguistic structures of Itzaj includes the phonological, morphophonological, and syntactic structures. Each morphological and grammatical construction is carefully explained, with additional examples of each construction included.
Itzaj Maya Grammar is a landmark contribution to the study of discourse in Maya language. When used with Hofling’s previous texts, it provides a thoroughly dynamic documentation of the language, useful to all interested in the study of Yukatejan languages or linguistics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Charles A. Hofling is professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University
REVIEWS
"With this volume, Andy Hofling has achieved the Boasian goal for language documentation that is so seldom met these days: a dictionary, a text collection, and now a grammar....In both range of material covered and depth of coverage, it is by far the most complete grammar of any Mayan language and rivals any indigenous language grammar."—Jill Brody, Louisiana State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
1.
Phonology
1.0.
Contents
1.1.
Phonemic Inventory and Orthography
1.2.
Stress, Juncture, and Pause
1.3.
Phonological Processes
1.4.
Phonotactics
1.5.
Spanish Loan Words
MORPHOLOGY
2.
Person Markers and Pronouns
2.0.
Contents
2.1.
Person Markers (Dependent Pronouns): Set A and Set B
2.2.
Independent Pronouns
3.
Verbal Complex
3.0.
Contents
3.1.
Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Status
3.2.
Verb Root Classes
3.3.
Verb Derivation and Voice
3.4.
Sensory and Cognitive Verbs
3.5.
Verb Compounds
4.
Nominal Morphology
4.0.
Contents
4.1.
Noun Roots
4.2.
Nominal Derivation
4.3.
Nominal Inflection and Modification
4.4.
Compound Nouns
4.5.
Noun Phrases
4.6.
Locative Expressions
5.
Numerals and Numeral Classifiers
5.0.
Contents
5.1.
Numerals
5.2.
Numeral Classifiers
5.3.
Affixation on Numeral Classifier & Noun Compounds
5.4.
Numeral Classifier Compounds
6.
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Participles
6.0.
Contents
6.1.
Adjectives
6.2.
Adverbs
6.3.
Participles
6.4.
Adjective and Adverb Compounds
6.5.
Intensifiers
6.6.
Quantifiers
6.7.
Plural Marking
7.
Particles and Exclamations
7.0.
Contents
7.1.
Nominal
7.2.
Locative
7.3.
Prepositions
7.4.
Manner and Intensity
7.5.
Temporal
7.6.
Modal-epistemic
7.7.
Negative
7.8.
Interrogative/Relative
7.9.
Conjunctions and Subordinators
7.10.
Exclamatory Words
MORPHOSYNTAX, SYNTAX, AND DISCOURSE
8.
Typological Overview
8.0.
Contents
8.1
Order of Major Constituents
8.2.
Modifier + Modified Order
8.3.
Modified + Modifier Order
8.4.
Prepositional Phrases
8.5.
Adverbs
8.6.
Stative, Existential, and Equational Constructions
8.7.
Interrogation
8.8.
Negation
9.
Nominal Morphosyntax
9.0.
Contents
9.1.
Introduction
9.2.
Unmodified Nouns
9.3.
Noun Classifiers
9.4.
Proper Nouns, Titles, and Honorifics
9.5.
Numerals and Numeral Classifiers
9.6.
Plurals
9.7.
Adjectives
9.8.
The Determiner a'
9.9.
The Topic Marker -e'
9.10.
The Partitive Marker -i'ij
9.11.
Contrastive Focus
9.12.
Demonstrative Adjectives
10.
Possession
10.0.
Contents
10.1.
Unmarked Possessive Constructions
10.2.
Marked Possessive Constructions
10.3.
Existential Constructions with yaan
11.
Pronouns in Discourse
11.0.
Contents
11.1.
Repetition and Redundancy of Pronominal Information
11.2.
Information Flow, Reference Tracking, and Discourse Highlighting
11.3.
Indirect Object Pronouns
11.4.
Independent Possessive Pronouns
11.5.
Demonstrative Pronouns
12.
Locatives
12.0.
Contents
12.1.
Distal Locatives
12.2.
Proximal Locative
12.3.
Ostensive Demonstratives
12.4.
Locative Prepositions
13.
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
13.0.
Contents
13.1.
Sentential Position
13.2.
Basic Prepositions: PREP + NP
13.3.
ti' + Relational Noun
13.4.
Preposition (/Relational Noun) ti'ij NP
14.
Adverbials
14.0.
Contents
14.1.
Sentential Position
14.2.
Temporal Adverbs
14.3.
Manner Adverbs
14.4.
Modal-Epistemic Adverbs
14.5.
Adverbial Focus with -ik-il ~ -ik ~ -il
15.
Verbal Morphosyntax I: Tense, Aspect, and Mood
15.0.
Contents
15.1.
Tense-Aspect-Mood
15.2.
Incompletive Status
15.3.
Completive Aspect and Status
15.4.
Irrealis Modalities
15.5.
Adverbial Incorporation
16.
Verbal Morphosyntax II: Transitivity and Voice
16.0.
Contents
16.1.
Transitive vs. Intransitive
16.2.
Active Transitive
16.3.
Intransitive Voices
16.4.
Topicality and Clause Linkage
17.
Statives and Equational Constructions
17.0.
Contents
17.1.
Statives
17.2.
Stative + Nominal
17.3.
Nominal + Stative
17.4.
Comparative Constructions
17.5.
Contrastive-Focus Constructions
17.6.
Existential yaan
18.
Interrogation
18.0.
Contents
18.1.
Intonation
18.2.
Yes-No Questions
18.3.
Interrogative-Word Questions
18.4.
Interrogative Focus and Scope
19.
Negation
19.0.
Contents
19.1.
General Negative ma'
19.2.
(mix … mix, '(neither) … nor')
19.3.
Negative Focus and Scope
COMPLEX SENTENCES
20.
Coordination
20.0.
Contents
20.1.
Parataxis
20.2.
Morphosyntactically-marked Coordination
21.
Conditional Clauses
21.0.
Contents
21.1.
Affirmative Conditional
21.2.
Negative Conditional: waj ma' (… -e')
21.3.
Counterfactual Conditional: waj V kuchij (… -e')
21.4.
Conditional with ka'ax … -e', 'even if'
22.
Relative Clauses
22.0.
Contents
22.1.
Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
22.2.
Restrictive Relative Clauses
22.3.
Reduced Relative Clauses
22.4.
Contrastive-focus Constructions
23.
Complements
23.0.
Contents
23.1.
Subject Complements
23.2.
Object Complements
24.
Adverbial Clauses
24.0.
Contents
24.1.
Temporal Adverbial Clauses
24.2.
Manner Adverbial Clauses
24.3.
Subordination with Intransitive Matrix Verbs and Statives
24.4.
Purpose Clauses
25.
Style and Poetics
25.0.
Contents
25.1.
Sound Symbolism and Sound Play
25.2.
Parallelism and Repetition
25.3.
Quoted Speech and Dialogic Repetition
25.4.
Discourse Unit Boundaries
25.5.
Discourse Genres
25.6.
Cultural Schemata
Appendix:
Texts
Text 1.
The Yellow Crocodile, the Man-eater
Text 2.
The Bandits (Wit's)
References
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