Yucatec Maya Agreement Fragment

Typological metadata for Yucatec Maya (Yucatecan, Mayan) agreement morphology, following [hofling-2017]: paradigm exponents and argument positions.

Yucatec person markers divide into Set A prefixes/proclitics and Set B suffixes. Set A marks transitive subjects, intransitive subjects in the incompletive status, and possessors; Set B marks transitive objects, intransitive subjects in the completive and dependent statuses, and stative subjects — the Yucatecan status-based split. The verbal complex runs aspect–Set A–root–status–Set B (táan u-muk-ik-en 's/he is burying me', [hofling-2017] Table 24.15): Yucatec is LOW-ABS.

Main declarations

• Yukatek.setAExponent, Yukatek.setBExponent: the Set A and Set B exponent tables ([hofling-2017] Tables 24.8, 24.12).
• Yukatek.absPosition: LOW-ABS morpheme placement.
• Case assignment over ArgumentRole via (Mayan.caseYukatek .Perf) (completive, ergative) and (Mayan.caseYukatek .Imp) (incompletive, extended-ergative).

Implementation notes

The six-cell tables use the exclusive base for 1PL (k- Set A, -o'on Set B; the inclusives add -e'ex) and the table's parenthesized prevocalic allomorphs (inw-, aw-, uy-). Plural 2nd/3rd Set A combine the singular prefix with -e'ex and -o'ob'. Set B 3SG is written -∅ per the family convention (-Ø in the source). Case wiring reuses Mayan.caseYukatek; the AF construction (marked by the absence of expected morphology, [aissen-2017] rather than a dedicated morpheme) is not yet encoded.

ABS position (LOW-ABS)

def Yukatek.absPosition : Mayan.ABSPosition

LOW-ABS: the Set B suffixes follow the stem and status suffix.

Equations

• Yukatek.absPosition = Mayan.ABSPosition.low

Set A exponents

def Yukatek.setAExponent : Phonology.Segment.Class → Mayan.ExponentTable

Set A markers by following-segment environment ([hofling-2017] Table 24.8, where the pre-vocalic glide is parenthesized: in(w)-, a(w)-, u(y)-). 2pl/3pl are discontinuous: person prefix plus the plural suffixes -e'ex/-o'ob'.

Equations

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Set B exponents

def Yukatek.setBExponent : Mayan.ExponentTable

Set B markers; zero-exponence 3SG ([hofling-2017] Table 24.12).

Equations

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theorem Yukatek.p3sg_abs_null : Agreement.Paradigm.realize setBExponent (Agreement.Cell.pn UD.Person.third UD.Number.Sing) = some []

3rd person absolutive is null, as across the standard Mayan branches ([kaufman-norman-1984] Table 8).

Argument positions