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Peer reviewedDavies, William D.; Sam-Colop, Luis Enrique – Language, 1990
Verb agreement in the K'iche' agentive voice appears to deviate from the ergative/absolutive system of other Mayan languages, leading some to treat agreement in the agentive as falling outside the regular agreement system as well as to differing views regarding appropriate syntactic representation of the agentive construction with respect to final…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Mayan Languages, Quiche, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Download full textGoodell, Melissa, Ed.; Choi, Dong-Ik, Ed. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This collection of papers by the graduate students and faculty in linguistics at the University of Kansas offers summaries of works in progress dealing with general linguistics and studies in Native American languages. General linguistics papers include: "Resetting Bounding Nodes in Acquiring Spanish" (Ramiro Cebreiros); "Syntax of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cherokee, Higher Education, Japanese
Fuchs, Catherine, Ed.; Robert, Stephane, Ed. – 1999
This book brings together the contributions of individual language scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and neurophysicians. Each chapter focuses on the human cognitive processes involved in language activity and the impact of language diversity on them. The basic issue is how to correlate language diversity with the universality…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
Fox, Barbara A., Ed.; Jurafsky, Dan, Ed.; Michaelis, Laura A., Ed. – 1999
Selected papers include: "From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese" (Kaoru Horie); "On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions" (Yo Matsumoto); "Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning" (Maria Polinsky, Dan Jackson);…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bikol, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
