Kerry Hull

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kerry Hull is involved.

Article

Hull, Kerry 2018 Semantic generalization in Ch’orti’ Mayan numeral classifiers The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 77–106 | Chapter

This study examines the process of linguistic change in the classification system of Ch’orti’ Mayan, a language spoken by roughly 12,000 people in southern Guatemala. I trace the origin of the classifier -kojt from its original meaning of “quadruped”, based on the positional root kojt‑ “kneel… read more