J Tonhauser - Proceedings of the 6th workshop on American Indian …, 2003 - Citeseer
… Yucatec Mayan data and hence to provide a general theory of content questions in Mayan languages. In section 3 I present a semantic licensing account for content questions in Mayan …
… More than that, though, the literature on Mayan languages is itself uneven. For instance, … done on the semantics of Yucatec than any other Mayan language, and so our semantics article …
TE Lengye - Anthropological Linguistics, 1988 - JSTOR
… The structural features of semantic couplets and their discourse functions are examined in … Mayan hieroglyphic texts. In this paper I want to examine the principal device by which Mayan …
L Campbell, T Kaufman - Annual Review of Anthropology, 1985 - JSTOR
… to distinguish different semantic values of logograms. For example, most Mayan languages … about the structure of Mayan ritual language and about preConquest Mayan mythology and …
L De León - Routes to language: Studies in honor of Melissa …, 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
… semantic areas characteristic of Mayan languages: ‘eating’ and ‘falling,’ for which verbs are learned before children reach the 50-word mark.I argue here that Tzotzil semantic … semantic …
… into the Mayan Etymological file, and phonological and semantic … The semantic fields into which the etymologies have been … These fields do not claim to reflect native Mayansemantic …
CS Speal - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2014 - cambridge.org
… -Mayan geographical origins. The objective of this article is reconstruction of ancient Maya economic development through an examination of the phonological and semantic history of …
… Consisting of topical chapters on the history, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse structure, and acquisition of the Mayan languages, this book will be a …
… of Yucatec than any other Mayan language, and so our semantics article almost certainly has a bias toward that language. With that caveat in mind, we have at least tried to balance our …