Pedro Mateo Pedro

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pedro Mateo Pedro is involved.

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The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya

Pedro Mateo Pedro

Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.

Articles

Duncan, Philip T., Harold Torrence and Pedro Mateo Pedro 2024 Indeterminate pronouns in Kaqchikel Linguistic Variation 24:1, pp. 116–163 | Article

This paper investigates the morphology, syntax, and semantics of five non-interrogative constructions that involve wh-expressions in Kaqchikel, a Mayan language of the K’ichean branch spoken in Guatemala. We focus on the properties of maximal free relative clauses, existential free relative… read more

Coon, Jessica, Pedro Mateo Pedro and Omer Preminger 2014 The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan Linguistic Variation 14:2, pp. 179–242 | Article

Many morphologically ergative languages display asymmetries in the extraction of core arguments: while absolutive arguments (transitive objects and intransitive subjects) extract freely, ergative arguments (transitive subjects) cannot. This falls under the label “syntactic ergativity” (see, e.g.… read more

Pye, Clifton, Barbara Pfeiler and Pedro Mateo Pedro 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