The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated
with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are …

This paper offers an in-depth look at roots and verb stem morphology in Chuj (Mayan) in
order to address a larger question: when it comes to the formation of verb stems, what …

This article examines a puzzle pertaining to the distribution of covalued nominals in two
understudied Mayan languages, Chuj and Ch'ol. While Ch'ol behaves as expected with …

In many languages, measure terms like item and kilo, as in two items of furniture and two
kilos of rice, can be used either to partition the nominal denotation into countable units, or to …

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns,
positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never …

Recent work proposes that modal auxiliaries project their domains from an event variable,
their 'anchor'(Hacquard 2006, 2010, Kratzer 2013). Based on the Spanish modal indefinite …

The probability is one of the many factors which influence phonetic variation. Contextual
probability, which describes how predictable a linguistic unit is in some local environment …

The Mayan languages comprise a language family with an ancient history, millions of
speakers, and immense cultural value, that, nevertheless, remains severely …

Research on modality has recently broadened beyond the verbal domain, unearthing
questions about the cross-categorial nature of modality, for instance: To what extent do DP …

Traditionally, due to the availability of technology, psycholinguistic research has focused
mainly on Western languages. However, this focus has recently shifted towards a more …