Clifton Pye
List of John Benjamins publications in which Clifton Pye is involved.
2016 Mayan negation cycles Cyclical Change Continued, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 219–248 | Article
The Jespersen Cycle (1917) remains the definitive example of the linguistic cycle. A reconstruction of the history of negation marking in the Mayan languages shows that while some Mayan languages exhibit the beginning of a typical Jespersen Cycle, the majority of Mayan languages evidence different… read more
2013 The acquisition of agreement in four
Mayan languages The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 271–306 | Article
This paper presents results of a comparative project documenting the development of verbal agreement inflections in children learning four different Mayan languages: K’iche’, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek. These languages have similar inflectional paradigms: they have a generally agglutinative… read more
2013 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 307–336 | Article
Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses. read more
2009 Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages Cyclical Change, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 265–284 | Article