Tseltal Agreement Fragment #

[Pol13a] [AP25]

Agreement morphology for Tseltal (Tseltalan, Mayan). Tseltal and Tsotsil are closely related languages within the Tseltalan subgroup of Western Mayan. They share most syntactic properties relevant to possessor extraction ([AP25]).

The System #

Tseltal has the same two agreement paradigms as Tsotsil:

Set A (ERG/GEN): prefixes cross-referencing transitive agent and possessor.
Set B (ABS): consistently suffixal in Tseltal, cross-referencing the absolutive argument (intransitive subject and transitive patient).

The key difference from Tsotsil is Set B position: Tseltal Set B markers are consistently suffixal, whereas Tsotsil Set B markers can be prefixal or suffixal depending on context.

3rd person singular Set B has no overt exponent (∅).

Grammatical function classification is shared across Tseltalan — see Mayan.Tseltalan for the shared definitions.

Alignment #

Tseltalan languages are uniformly ergative-absolutive with no aspect-conditioned split (in contrast with Cholan; per [Pol13a]). Set A indicates A; Set B indicates S and P alike.

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abbrev Tseltal.ArgPosition :

Type

Argument positions in a Tseltal clause. Aliased to the canonical Features.Prominence.ArgumentRole (S/A/P/R/T) so cross-Mayan and cross-framework code shares one inventory.

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Tseltal.ArgPosition = Features.Prominence.ArgumentRole

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abbrev Tseltal.ArgPosition.case :

ArgPosition → Case

Case assignment for Tseltal. Definitionally equal to Mayan.caseTseltalan .Perf, which derives from Alignment.ergative.assignCase. Tseltalan has no aspect-conditioned split, so a single case function suffices for both perfective and non-perfective.

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Tseltal.ArgPosition.case = Mayan.caseTseltalan UD.Aspect.Perf

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abbrev Tseltal.ArgPosition.accCase :

ArgPosition → Case

Non-perfective case assignment for Tseltal. Identical to perfective (no aspect split per [Pol13a]). Provided for cross-Mayan shape-uniformity with the other Mayan fragments.

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Tseltal.ArgPosition.accCase = Mayan.caseTseltalan UD.Aspect.Imp

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def Tseltal.absPosition :

Mayan.ABSPosition

Tseltal's absolutive morphemes appear in low (post-stem) position, consistent with Tseltalan being LOW-ABS.

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Tseltal.absPosition = Mayan.ABSPosition.low

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def Tseltal.setALinearity :

Mayan.MarkerLinearity

Set A markers in Tseltal are prefixal (per [AP25] Table 1; pan-Mayan invariant).

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Tseltal.setALinearity = Mayan.MarkerLinearity.prefixal

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def Tseltal.setBLinearity :

Mayan.MarkerLinearity

Set B markers in Tseltal are consistently suffixal. Contrasts with Tsotsil Set B, which is prefixal or suffixal depending on context ([AP25] Table 1, footnote 9).

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Tseltal.setBLinearity = Mayan.MarkerLinearity.suffixal

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def Tseltal.setAExponent :

Mayan.ExponentTable

Set A (ERG/GEN) exponents for Oxchuc Tseltal ([Pol13a]). Prefixes on the verb or possessed noun. Forms shown as pre-C/pre-V allomorph pairs.

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def Tseltal.setBExponent :

Mayan.ExponentTable

Set B (ABS) exponents for Oxchuc Tseltal ([Pol13a]). Suffixes on the verb stem. 3rd person singular is null (-∅).

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theorem Tseltal.p3sg_abs_null :

Agreement.Paradigm.realize setBExponent (Agreement.Cell.pn UD.Person.third UD.Number.Sing) = some "-∅"

3rd person absolutive is null — invariant across the standard Mayan branches per [KN84] Table 8. Not pan-Mayan: see Mam exception via MayanLang.isStandard.

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theorem Tseltal.setB_is_suffixal :

setBLinearity = Mayan.MarkerLinearity.suffixal

Tseltal Set B differs from Tsotsil in linearity (suffixal vs prefixal-or-suffixal); the marker set assignment is identical.

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def Tseltal.extractionStrategy :

Extraction.ExtractionMarkingStrategy

Tseltal's extraction data: no Agent Focus morphology required for A-extraction (extractionStrategy = .unmarked), consistent with Tseltal being LOW-ABS.

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