K'iche' Word-Order Profile #
Grammar-grounded word-order profile for K'iche' (K'ichean Mayan) from
[Mon17], who documents verb-initial order: VS for intransitives
and VOS for transitives. K'iche' is not coded in WALS Chs 81/82/83 (ISO
quc is absent), so the fields override .notInWALS rather than
deriving via WordOrderProfile.ofWALS.
Implementation notes #
The .vos basic order follows Mondloch's preferred-order analysis.
Basic word order in K'iche'an (and Mayan generally) is contested:
K'iche' admits both VOS and VSO for transitives, with subject-initial
orders increasingly attested under Spanish contact. Sister-language
WALS codings illustrate the divergence — Kaqchikel cak is .vos in
Ch 81, Tzutujil tzj is .noDominantOrder, Mam mam is .vso
(different branch but verb-initial). [CC18] surveys
derivational accounts of Mayan verb-initiality; an alternative
substrate commitment would be .noDominant (parallel to Tzutujil) or
.vso per a corpus analysis. The .vs/.vo commitments are robust
across the contestation — K'iche' is verb-initial in both intransitive
and transitive clauses.
K'iche' word-order profile, grammar-grounded from [Mon17]
("the preferred word order appears to be: verb-subject", VOS for
transitives); not in WALS Chs 81/82/83, so fields override
.notInWALS.
Equations
- Kiche.wordOrder = { basicOrder := WordOrder.BasicOrder.vos, svOrder := WordOrder.SVOrder.vs, ovOrder := WordOrder.OVOrder.vo }
Instances For
Drift sentinel: the profile is internally consistent.