K'iche' Adposition Order #
Grammar-grounded adposition-order classification for K'iche' (K'ichean
Mayan) from [Mon17], who documents prepositional constructions
(preposition + NP order, consistent with the language's
verb-initial/head-initial profile per Greenberg's U3). K'iche' is not
coded in WALS Ch 85 (ISO quc is absent), so the value is a direct
override rather than via AdpositionOrder.ofWALS.
Implementation notes #
Mayanist literature debates whether K'iche' truly has adpositions or
only relational nouns filling an adposition-like role syntactically
(Aissen 1992, Coon 2010). Under the relational-noun analysis K'iche'
would arguably be coded .noAdpositions rather than .prepositional.
[CC18] surveys derivational accounts of Mayan
verb-initiality and the related head-direction debates. The Fragment
commits to .prepositional because Mondloch describes preposition-like
constructions; either choice is head-initial under
AdpositionOrder.headDirection.
K'iche' adposition order, grammar-grounded as .prepositional from
[Mon17]; not in WALS Ch 85, so a direct override.