Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 209 p)
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9783110923148
Series Statement:
Studies on language acquisition 33
Content:
Biographical note: Barbara Pfeiler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico.
Content:
This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110195593
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195590
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 3-11-019559-3
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-019559-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110923148
URL:
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Author information:
Blaha Pfeiler, Barbara 1952-
