scholarly journals A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucía Alcalá ◽  
Suzanne Gaskins ◽  
Lindsey E. Richland
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya

scholarly journals Left-peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya

2012 ◽  
pp. 296-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavros Skopeteas ◽  
Elisabeth Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Discourse Interface

scholarly journals Head-Marking and Agreement: Evidence from Yucatec Maya

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-208
Author(s):  
Jürgen Bohnemeyer ◽  
Lindsay K. Butler ◽  
T. Florian Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya

An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya

1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
William F. Hanks ◽  
Allan F. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Oral Literature

“When you were that little…”

Gesture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Josefina Safar
Keyword(s):  
Video Data ◽  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Linguistic Functions ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this article, I analyse how conventional height-specifier gestures used by speakers of Yucatec Maya become incorporated into Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). Combining video-data from elicitation, narrations, conversations and interviews collected from YMSL signers from four communities as well as from hearing nonsigners from another Yucatec Maya village, I compare form, meaning and distribution of height-specifiers in gesture and sign. Co-speech gestures that depict the height of upright entities – performed with a flat hand, palm facing downwards – come to serve various linguistic functions in YMSLs: a noun for human referents, a verb GROW, a spatial referential device, and an element of name signs. Special attention is paid to how height-specifier gestures fulfil a grammatical purpose as noun-classifiers for human referents in YMSLs. My study demonstrates processes of lexicalisation and grammaticalisation from gesture to sign and discusses the impact of gesture on the emergence of shared sign languages.

A Lifetime of Mourning: Grief Work among Yucatec Maya Women

Ethos ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. Woodrick
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Grief Work

scholarly journals World renewal rituals among the Postclassic Yucatec Maya and contemporary Ch’orti’ Maya

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (45) ◽  
pp. 121-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Vail ◽  
Matthew G. Looper
Keyword(s):  
Yucatec Maya
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