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Direct linkSafar, Josefina – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In this paper, I discuss methodological and ethical issues that arose in the process of documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). YMSLs are indigenous sign languages used by deaf and hearing people in Yucatec Maya villages with a high incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. The documentation of rural…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
Safar, Josefina; Le Guen, Olivier; Collí, Geli Collí; Hau, Merli Collí – Sign Language Studies, 2018
In this article, we examine various strategies used to express cardinal numbers in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs) from three historically unrelated communities in Yucatán, Mexico: Chicán, Nohkop, and Cepeda Peraza. Our findings describe some numeral strategies, which remained unattested in previous accounts, and demonstrate that YMSL numerals…
Descriptors: Sign Language, American Indians, Rural Areas, Numbers
Caballero, Gabriela – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northern Mexico of great typological, theoretical, and historical significance. This paper presents an overview and background of the Choguita Rarámuri language description and documentation project and provides a guide to the documentary collection emerging from this project. This…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages
Tree, Erich Fox – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article examines sign languages that belong to a complex of indigenous sign languages in Mesoamerica that K'iche'an Maya people of Guatemala refer to collectively as Meemul Tziij. It explains the relationship between the Meemul Tziij variety of the Yukatek Maya village of Chican (state of Yucatan, Mexico) and the hitherto undescribed Meemul…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Maya (People), Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Roggia, Aaron B. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recent research in language contact has investigated bilingual deviations from monolingual norms where syntax interfaces with the lexical and discourse components of the grammar (e.g. Iverson & Rothman 2008; Lozano 2006; Montrul 2004, 2005; Sorace & Filiaci 2006; Tsimpli et al. 2004). Such studies generally show that the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Verbs, Syntax
Peer reviewedPowers, Michael D. – Hispania, 1984
Provides pedagogical rules for selecting relative pronouns in Spanish. Sixteen different linguistic environments in which relative pronoun usage occurs are categorized according to their different syntactic relationships and semantic intentions. (SL)
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Attitudes
Download full textBickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Dooley, Robert A., Ed.; Bickford, J. Albert, Ed. – 1989
The volume represents in microcosm the sort of faculty-trainee-student interaction that is a priority at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the University of North Dakota. Seven studies by faculty and students of SIL include the following: "Lexical Variation in Mexican Sign Language" (J. Albert Bickford); "Reflexives in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Patterns, Language Research
