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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
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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
Sonora Univ. (Mexico), Dept. of Letters and Linguistics. – 1994
Papers in these volumes were presented at a Mexican conference on linguistics. Most papers are in Spanish; the English translations of the titles include the following: "Directions in Contemporary Semantics" (L. Lara); "Regular Accentuation in Spanish" (C. Braithwaite); "Syntactic Order in Sonoran" (D. Brown); "Speech Datives or Interest/Not of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnology