Lyon Summer School 2008 - Mayan Course


Summer School Home Program Enrollments Posters Course materials Practical information	Bibliography/Reading Material for "Topics in Amerindian (Mayan) Languages" C. Grinevald and M.Peake This page is also available as a pdf here: Bibliography for the Course (course outline and recommended reading materials) Items marked are highly recommended and those marked *** should be read for class.* Week 1 Day 1 (Monday 23rd June) Introduction to the Mayan Family, Sociolinguistics, CIESAS/OKMA Craig, C. (1979) “Jacaltec: Field Work in Guatemala”, in T. Shopen (ed.) Languages and their Speakers. Cambridge: Winthrop, pp. 2-57 England, Nora C. (1992) “Endangered languages: doing Mayan linguistics in Guatemala” in Language 68, pp. 29-35 England, Nora C. (1998) “Mayan efforts toward language preservation” in L. Grenoble and L. Whaley (eds.) Endangered Languages, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, pp. 99-116 Grinevald, C., (2002), "Linguistique et langues mayas du Guatemala" in Faits de Langues, Meso-Amerique, Caraibes, Amazonie, Orphys, 1:20, pp. 17-27 Grinevald, C., (2007), "Endangered Languages of Mexico and Central America" in Brenzinger, M.(ed.) Endangered Languages, Mouton de Gruyter Instituto Indigenista Nacional (1988) Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala: Documento de referencia para la pronunciación de los nuevos alfabetos oficiales Mateo-Toldeo, B’alam (2003) “The use of languages’ names: The Mayan case” in IJAL, Vol. 69, Number 2, April 2003, pp. 151-153 Sis Iboy, Juliana Nikte’ and Pérez, José (OKMA) (2008), “Las lenguas Mayas de Guatemala: cuando los Mayas organizan el proceso de revitalización” Powerpoint Presentation, Fondation Chirac Launch, 9th June 2008 Day 2 (Tuesday 24th June) Typological characteristics: phonology, practical alphabets, morphology (roots) verb valency (ergativity), noun classification, word order and hierarchies Campbell, Lyle. (1973) "On Glottalic Consonants" IJAL 39, pp. 44-46 England, Nora C. (1988) Introducción a la lingüística: Idiomas Mayas. Guatemala City: PLFM and Cholsamaj. (reprinted 1992, 2nd edition 1996, reprinted 1999) (Chapters 2 and 3) *England, Nora C. (1991) “Changes in basic word order in Mayan languages” IJAL 57:446-486 England, Nora C. (1992) Autonomía de los idiomas mayas: Historia e identidad Guatemala City: Cholsamaj. (2nd edition 1994) (Chapter 2, pp. 49-73) England, Nora C. (1995) “Linguistics and indigenous American languages: Mayan examples” Journal of Latin American Anthropology, vol. 1, pp. 122-149. England, Nora C. (2001). Introducción a la Gramática de los Idiomas Mayas. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj Polian, Gilles (2004) Elements de Grammaire du Tseltal, Doctoral Dissertation, Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (Chapter 6: Structure de la phrase : ordre des constituants, focalisation et topicalisation) Day 3 (Wednesday 25th June) Roots, derivation (Guest Lecturer: Valentina Vapnarksy CNRS-EREA) Dayley, J. (1985) Tzutujil Grammar, University of California Press (Chapter 2: Introduction to the Morphology) Lois X. et V. Vapnarsky (2003) “Polyvalence of root classes in Yucatecan Mayan Languages” LINCOM Europa, Studies in Native American Linguistics, Munich. Lois X. et V. Vapnarsky (2003) "Les racines verbo-nominales du maya yucatèque" in Faits de Langue, Paris Lois X. et V. Vapnarsky (2006) "Root Indeterminacy and Polyvalence in Yukatekan Mayan Languages" in X. Lois and V. Vapnarsky (eds.) Lexical Categories and Root Classes in Amerindian Languages, Bern: Peter Lang, pp.69-115 Day 4 (Thursday 26th June) Person Markers, Ergativity Aissen, J. (1987). Tzotzil Clause Structure. Berlin: Springer (Chapter: Inflection and Agreement, pp. 43-49) Craig, C. (1977) The Structure of Jacaltec, Austin: University of Texas Press (Chapter 3: Case Marking) Du Bois, J. (1987) “The Discourse Basis of Ergativity” Language 63, pp. 805-855 England, Nora C. (1983) Ergativity in Mamean (Mayan) languages. IJAL 49:1-19 Week 2 Day 5 (Monday 30th June) Voices: passives, antipassives, applicatives Aissen, Judith (1979). "Possessor ascension in Tzotzil" in L. Martin. (ed.) Papers in Mayan Linguistics. Columbia: Missouri, Lucas Brothers Aissen, Judith (1983). “Indirect object advancement in Tzotzil” in D. M. Perlmutter (ed.). Studies in Relational Grammar 1. Chicago, Chicago University Press Aissen, Judith (1987). Tzotzil Clause Structure. Berlin: Springer (Chapter: Inflection and Agreement) Bricker, V. (1978) “Antipassive Constructions in Yucatec Maya”, in England, N (ed.). Papers in Mayan Linguistics, Columbia: University of Missouri Press Campbell, Lyle (2000) "Valency Changing Derivations in K'iche”, in Dixon R.M.W. and A. Aikhenvald (eds.) Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 236-281 Craig, C. (1979) “The Antipassive and Jacaltec”, in L. Martin (ed.) Papers in Mayan Linguistics, Vol 7, Lucas Bros Publ. England, Nora C. (1988) “Mam voice” in M. Shibatani (eds) Typological Studies in Language, 16: Passive and Voice, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 525-545. Smith-Stark, T. (1978) “The Mayan antipassive: some facts and fictions”, in N. C. England (ed.), Papers in Mayan Linguistics. Studies in Mayan Linguistics Number Two, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, pp. 169-187 *Zavala, R. (1994) “Functional Analysis of Akatek Voice Constructions”, in IJAL 63, pp. 439–474 Day 6 (Tuesday 1st July) Complex Sentences: Complementation, relativisation (agentive voice) Craig, C. (1977) The Structure of Jacaltec, Austin: University of Texas Press (Chapters 8: Complement Sentences, 11: Equi-NP deletion, 13: Causative Constructions) Day 7 (Wednesday 2nd July) Nominal classification (noun classifiers: Q’anjob’al, numeral classifiers: Tseltal, possessive classifiers: Yucatec) Berlin, B. (1970) “Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers: A Study in Ethnographic Semantics” in American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Feb., 1970), pp. 194-196 Briceño Chel, F. (1993) La Cuantificación en Maya: el uso de clasificadores numerales y de mensurativos, B.A. Thesis, Merida, Yucatán, México, 187 pages Craig, C., (1986), "Jacaltec noun classifiers. A study in language and culture", in Craig, C. (ed.) Noun Classes and Categorization, Benjamins, pp. 263-295 Craig, C., (1986), "Jacaltec noun classifiers. A Study in Grammaticalization", Lingua: 70, pp. 241-284 Craig, C., (1990), "Clasificadores Nominales: Una Innovación Q’anjob’al" in N. England and S. Elliot (eds.) Lecturas Sobre la Lingüística Maya, Antigua: CIRMA, pp. 253-268 de Leon Pasquel, L. (1988) Noun and Numeral Classifiers in Mixtec and Tzotzil: a Referential View, Doctoral dissertation, University of Sussex **Grinevald, C., (2000), "A morpho-syntactic typology of classifiers", in Senft, G. (ed.) Systems of Nominal Classification, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 50-92 Grinevald, C., (2002), "Making sense of nominal classification systems: noun classifiers and the grammaticalization variable", in Diewald, G. & Wischer, I. (eds.) New reflections on Grammaticalization, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 259-275 Lehmann, C. (1998) Possession in Yucatec Maya, Lincoln: Europa (Studies in Native American Linguistics 04) (Section 3.2.2.2.3.1.3. Possessive Classification p.61) Zavala, R. (2000) “Multiple classifier systems in Akatek (Mayan)" in Senft, G. (ed.) Systems of Nominal Classification, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.114-146 Day 8 (Thursday 3rd July) Expression of Space: relational nouns, positionals, directionals Brown, P. (1994) “The INs and ONs of Tzeltal locative expressions: the semantics of static descriptions of location” in Linguistics, Vol 32:4/5, pp.743-790 Craig, C. (1993) “Jakaltek Directionals: their meaning and discourse function” in Languages of the World, V:7:2, pp. 23-36 de Leon Pasquel, L. (1992). “Body Parts and Location in Tzotzil: Ongoing Grammaticalization” in Léon, de Lourdes and Stephen C. Levinson (eds.). Spatial Description in Mesoamerican Languages. Introduction. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, pp. 570-589 *Grinevald, C., (2006), "The expression of static location in a typological perspective", in Hickmann, M. & Robert , S. (eds.) Space in languages: Linguistic systems and cognitive categories, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,:John Benjamins *Grinevald, C., (to appear), "Directionals do it because prepositions don't: path in motion and location in Popti' (Mayan)", in Cuykens, H., De Mulder, W., Goyens, M. & Mortelmans, T. (eds.) Variation and change in Adpositions of Movement, Benjamins Publishing Cie Haviland, J. (1992) "'Seated and settled.' Tzotzil verbs of the body." In de León, L. and S. Levinson (eds.), Space in Mesoamerican Languages, special issue of Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, 45(6), Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 543-561. Haviland, J. (1993) “The Syntax of Tzotzil Auxilliaires and Directionals: The Grammaticalization of ‘Motion’”, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntactic Issues in Native American Languages. pp.33-49 Levinson, S.C. (1994) “Vision, shape and linguistic description: Tzeltal body-part terminology and object description” in J.B. Haviland & S.C. Levinson (eds.), Spatial Conceptualization in Mayan Languages [special issue]. Linguistics, 32(4/5), pp. 791-855. Zavala, R. (1993) Clause Integration with Verbs of Motion in Mayan Languages, Master of Arts Thesis, University of Oregon
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