Contact and Mayan Languages

Law, Danny

doi:10.1002/9781119485094.ch31

The Handbook of Language Contact 2020

DOI: 10.1002/9781119485094.ch31

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Contact and Mayan Languages

Danny Law¹

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The position of Set B markers in Proto-Mayan

Momme Holtmann

2023

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This paper discusses the position of Set B pronouns in Proto-Mayan. While previous reconstructions differ from each other with regard to the exact position that Set B pronouns occupied with respect to the predicate (alwayspreceding, always following, or sometimes preceding and sometimes following the predicate word), all of them assume that Set B pronouns attached to the predicate just as they usually do in the modern Mayan languages. Based on cases in modern and colonial Mayan languages where Set B pronouns attach either to a non-predicate or the false predicate, in this paper, it is proposed that Set B pronouns were second-position enclitics (ultimately derived from free personal pronouns) in Proto-Mayan which attached to the first word of the clause regardless of the host’s word class. That Set B pronouns attach to the predicate in the modern Mayan languages is an innovation that results from the common clause-initial positioning of verbs in Mayan languages.

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The position of Set B markers in Proto-Mayan

Momme Holtmann

2023

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