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- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kaqchikel Mayan
- Chapter 3 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension I: Behavioral Studies
- Chapter 4 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension II: fMRI Studies
- Chapter 5 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension III: ERP Studies without Context
- Chapter 6 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension IV: ERP Studies with Context
- Chapter 7 Basic Word Order in Language and Natural Order of Thought
- Chapter 8 Constituent Order Preference in Event Representation
- Chapter 9 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production I: Production Frequency
- Chapter 10 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production II: Time Course and Cognitive Load
- Chapter 11 Grammatical Processing and Event Apprehension
- Chapter 12 Syntactic Structure of Kaqchikel Revisited
- Chapter 13 Syntax and Processing Load
- Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
- Book part
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Kaqchikel Mayan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kaqchikel Mayan
- Chapter 3 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension I: Behavioral Studies
- Chapter 4 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension II: fMRI Studies
- Chapter 5 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension III: ERP Studies without Context
- Chapter 6 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension IV: ERP Studies with Context
- Chapter 7 Basic Word Order in Language and Natural Order of Thought
- Chapter 8 Constituent Order Preference in Event Representation
- Chapter 9 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production I: Production Frequency
- Chapter 10 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production II: Time Course and Cognitive Load
- Chapter 11 Grammatical Processing and Event Apprehension
- Chapter 12 Syntactic Structure of Kaqchikel Revisited
- Chapter 13 Syntax and Processing Load
- Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 sketches aspects of the grammar of Kaqchikel relevant to the discussions in the subsequent chapters. Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. It is a head-marking and morphologically ergative language in which subjects and objects are not overtly case-marked for grammatical relations. Rather, grammatical relations are obligatorily marked on predicates, e.g., a verb with two sets of agreement morphemes, one set for a transitive subject and another for a transitive object and an intransitive subject. The word order of Kaqchikel is relatively flexible, and all of the logically possible six word orders are grammatically allowed. Among these, VOS is considered the basic word order of Kaqchikel by many Mayan language researchers.
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- Constituent Order in Language and ThoughtA Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics, pp. 15 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023