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Lacandon Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary
Around 1700 AD the Lacandon Maya took refuge in the forest lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and in western Petén, Guatemala. They were never conquered by the Spanish and thus maintained many of their cultural practices well into the twentieth century. Their language belongs to the Yucatecan branch of the Maya language, a branch that is believed to have begun to diversify at least one thousand years ago. Today the Lancandon are split into northern and southern linguistic groups. This dictionary focuses on the southern Lacandon of Lacanjá.
Following the same trilingual format as Hofling’s Mopan Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary , this reference contains pronunciation and grammatical information. It is a hybrid of a root dictionary and one with words in alphabetical order; words can be looked up in these two different ways, making it easy to use for both native and nonnative speakers. It also accommodates Spanish speakers who wish to learn Lacandon, and in the future is likely to be helpful to Lacandon-speaking children, who increasingly use Spanish outside the home, while preserving a record of this indigenous language.
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Possession and Ergativity in Itzá Maya
Possession marking is examined in Itza Maya in an attempt to illustrate how possession marking relates to other aspects of grammatical structure, specifically ergative marking. Focus is on the motivations for marking possessors, eg, ergatives. The approach is discourse-oriented; the primary data are a corpus of narrative texts. 25 References. S. Zien
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Marshall E. Durbin (1936-1983)
A brief description of the linguistic work of M. Durbin is presented. His work was concentrated in three areas: Athapaskan studies, Mayan studies, & South American linguistics. B. Annesser Murray
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Discourse Framing in Itzá Maya Narrative
Framing particles are a pervasive feature of Itzá Maya discourse. They serve cohesive and contrastive functions as they format the text in discourse chunks, resulting in the parallelisms so often noted in Mayan discourse. Primarily deictic, these particles signal relations to spatial and temporal context, relations to prior and succeeding discourse, and the speaker's intent to highlight or background information. An analysis of Itzá Maya narrative reveals how these particles function to structure discourse, and how speakers manipulate discourse markers according to communicative intent.
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