LINGUIST List 26.3862

Tue Sep 01 2015

Books: The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya: Mateo Pedro

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Date: 01-Sep-2015
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaarbenjamins.nl>
Subject: The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya: Mateo Pedro
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Title: The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya
Series Title: Trends in Language Acquisition Research 14
Published: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar.14

Author: Pedro Mateo Pedro
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268303 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268303 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268303 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027244031 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027244031 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027244031 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:

Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject and object inflections display a split ergative pattern. The subjects of intransitive verbs with aspect markers take absolutive markers, whereas the subjects of aspectless intransitive verbs take ergative markers. The acquisition of three types of clauses is explored in detail (imperatives, indicatives, and aspectless complements). The data come from longitudinal spontaneous speech of three monolingual Q’anjob’al children aged 1;8–3;5. This book contributes unique data to the debate on the acquisition of finite and non-finite verbs as well as adding to our understanding of the acquisition of split ergative patterns. The book is of interest to researchers and students working on linguistics and language acquisition.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                            Morphology
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): Q'anjob'al (kjb)

Written In: English (eng)

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