At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in
Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it …

The article offers information on the morphology and syntax of Mayan languages. It focuses
on core verbal complex, including roots, stem formation and voice. It focuses on ergative …

This dissertation investigates nominal and clausal structure in Ch'ol, a Mayan language of
southern Mexico. I take as an empirical basis the interpretation of bare nouns and extraction …

This dissertation describes six syntactic complex predicates in Q'anjob'al (Maya) spoken in
Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: the Directional Construction (DIRC), Verbal …

The phonology of Mayan languages is well known both descriptively and historically. To
begin the discussion of the sound systems of Mayan languages, it is useful to consider the …

This dissertation is a study of four morphosyntactic topics on the grammar of Olutec, a
Mixean language spoken in the state of Veracruz, Mexico:(1) ergativity and inversion;(2) …

Jakaltek has an extensive system of directionals which includes three different subsets of
suffixes. This paper first describes these directionals and the spatial and aspectual …

Ch'ol (Mayan) exhibits asymmetries in what is available for left branch extraction. While both
numerals and interrogative possessors are able to extract from absolutive subject position …

This dissertation describes the morphological and syntactic properties of complement and
purpose clauses in K'iche'. K'iche'is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. Complement …

Q'anjob'al along with Popti'and Akateko form the Q'anjob'alan group within the Western
division of Mayan languages (Campbell and Kaufman 1985: 189). It has all the typological …