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La posición de los marcadores del Juego B en el proto-maya

Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México


Field	Value

ISSN	2007-736X 2007-736X

Other Standard Identifier	10.24201/clecm.v10i00.278 doi

Authentication Code	dc

Title Statement	La posición de los marcadores del Juego B en el proto-maya

Personal Name	Momme Holtmann Universidad de Colonia

Summary, etc.	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 (always preceding, 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.

Publication, Distribution, Etc.	El Colegio de México, A.C.

Electronic Location and Access	application/pdf text/xml application/epub+zip text/plain audio/mpeg https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/278

Data Source Entry	Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México; Vol. 10 (2023): enero-diciembre 2023

Language Note	eng

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note	Derechos de autor 2023 Momme Holtmann