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Direct linkGarrido Rodriguez, Gabriela; Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Brown, Penelope; Huettig, Falk; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognitive Science, 2023
We present a visual world eye-tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word order in transitive sentences in Tseltal is Verb--Object--Subject (VOS). The verb is usually encountered first, making argument structure and syntactic information…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Eye Movements, Word Order, Verbs
Munoz Ledo Yanez, Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This thesis presents an analysis of the system of transitivity, voice and valency alternations in Huasteco of San Luis Potosi (Mayan) within a functional-typological framework. The study is based on spoken discourse and elicited data collected in the municipalities of Aquismon and Tancanhuitz de Santos in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Brown, Penelope – Language Sciences, 2008
The Tzeltal language is spoken in a mountainous region of southern Mexico by some 280,000 Mayan corn farmers. This paper focuses on landscape and place vocabulary in the Tzeltal municipio of Tenejapa, where speakers use an absolute system of spatial reckoning based on the overall uphill (southward)/downhill (northward) slope of the land. The paper…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Vocabulary
