New perspectives in Mayan linguistics
By: edited by Heriberto Avelino, Jessica Coon and Elisabeth Norcliffe
Contributors: Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Series: MIT working papers in linguistics -- 59; MIT working papers in linguistics -- v. 59.
Publisher: [MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Maya language; Congresses; Dialects
Notes: "Proceedings of SSILA 2008: The Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Intonational patterns of topic and focus constructions in Yucatec Maya / Heriberto Avelino; title: Agentivity and status in Yukatekan languages / Henrik Bergqvist; title: Positional roots and case absorption / Jessica Coon and Omer Preminger; title: Tonal dialects and consonant-pitch interaction in Yucatec Maya / Melissa Frazier; title: Focus, agent focus and relative clauses in Yucatec Maya / Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Jorge Monforte; title: Voice and auxiliaries in Mopan Maya / Charles Andrew Hofling; title: Stylistics of the second person singular independent pronoun in Kaqchikel / Judith Maxwell; title: Emerging subject properties  of Kiche experiencers / Pamela Munro; title: Revisiting agent focus in Yucatec / Elisabeth Norcliffe; title: Distinctness effects on vos order: evidence from Yucatec Maya / Stavros Skopeteas and Elisabeth Verhoeven.