Tracing Eastern Mayan Perfect ‐maχ
Outcomes of Direct Affix Borrowing in the Sacapulas Corridor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21418794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Tandy (0009-0004-8955-8410, University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-512 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Philological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-1636 • E-ISSN: 1467-968X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-968x.12273 |
| OpenAlex | W4388248260 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Several Eastern Mayan languages of central highland Guatemala have an innovative perfect participle suffix ‐maχ , whose distribution suggests that it diffused areally. This article describes the innovation of ‐maχ in Poqom and argues that it spread to other Mayan languages in a newly proposed contact area called the ‘Sacapulas Corridor’. I explore three case studies where the distribution of the perfect participle ‐maχ changed in the recipient language: functional change to a general passive in Uspantek, matter replication without pattern replication in Sakapultek and Sipakapense, and contact‐induced multiple exponence in Northern Mam. The diffusion of ‐maχ exemplifies how structural similarity and bilingualism between the source and recipient language can facilitate direct affix borrowing
Affix · Linguistics · Participle · Suffix · Verb · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change
Comparative Maya (Yucatec, Lacandon, Itzaj, and Mopan Maya)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
The French Influence on Middle English Morphology
Xoqoneb’
On contact-induced grammaticalization
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence
Pronominal borrowing among the Maya
Contact-induced changes
Copying form without content
Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization
The Effects of K’ichean/Mamean Contact in Sipakapense
Inherited similarity and contact-induced change in Mayan Languages
Borrowing matter and pattern in morphology. An overview
Pattern borrowing, linguistic similarity, and new categories
Teco
Archaeological and linguistic correlations in Mayaland and associated areas of Meso-America
Direct and indirect affix borrowing
Hermit Crabs
Quichean Linguistic Prehistory
Language Contact and Language Change
| Highly cited | No |
|---|