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Download full textPye, Clifton – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
This analysis shows how the Government and Binding (GB) framework of Chomsky may be extended to the focus antipassive construction in K'iche', a Mayan language spoken in the central highland region of Guatemala. The GB model previously has been successfully extended to a number of Romance languages and has shown that a wide range of differences…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Pinkerton, Sandra, Ed. – 1976
This volume of papers reports the fieldwork and linguistic analysis done on K'ekchi, a Mayan language spoken by about 500,000 people in the departments of Alta Verapaz and Peten in Guatemala as well as in the southern part of Belize. The work was done by five anthropology and linguistics graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin with…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Bibliographies, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics
