Roberto Zavala Maldonado
List of John Benjamins publications in which Roberto Zavala Maldonado is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 8. The emergence of an inverse marking system in Jitotoltec Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian (eds.), pp. 262–310 | Chapter
Jitotoltec is the only language of the Zoquean branch that developed an overt inverse marking system. All the languages of the Mixe-Zoquean family have a hierarchical alignment, but only Mixean languages and Jitotoltec developed an inverse marking with overt inverse morphology. The language has… read more
2011 16. Reciprocal constructions in Olutec Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 265–276 | Article
Olutec exhibits three reciprocal strategies each of which convey different levels of prominence of the second reciprocant. In the conjoined subject strategy/, both reciprocants share the same topical status. In the /subject cum adjunct strategy/ the second reciprocant is treated as background… read more
1999 External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 339–372 | Article