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LD&C, 2021
This article seeks to establish a dialogue between the methodological proposals that have been pu... more This article seeks to establish a dialogue between the methodological proposals that have been put forward for linguistic fieldwork and the growing experiences of Indigenous linguists. It is well known that the theorizing of the methodologies that dictate linguists' interactions in their communities of study is carried out from a perspective foreign to both the language and the community. These methodologies are designed for and guided by non-Indigenous academics, predominantly academics from different countries than those of the language and its speakers. This paper argues that the challenges faced by insider and insider-outsider linguists are not the same challenges as those faced by outsider linguists. Thus, this article contributes to a reevaluation of the universality of ethical methodological principles of fieldwork behavior in contemporary linguistics and promotes a local, Indigenous perspective that implies the decolonization of fieldwork methodologies designed by and for foreigners and uncritically adopted by insider and insider-outsider linguists.
Experiencias de campo desde la perspectiva de académicos indígenas del sur de México.
Esta es una tesis de maestría (Lingüística Indoamericana del CIESAS). En este trabajo se describe... more Esta es una tesis de maestría (Lingüística Indoamericana del CIESAS). En este trabajo se describen los predicados expresivos y los ideófonos como dos categorías independientes de las demás clases léxicas conocidas en las lenguas del mundo. Los predicados expresivos son una clase intermedia entre predicados verbales y predicados no-verbales, y muestran ciertas construcciones únicas. Los ideófonos aparecen únicamente en una construcción con verbo ligero, y siguen los rasgos descritos en la tipología. En ambas clases se asume una multimodalidad en su codificación semántica y se propone un análisis que incluye gestos y prosodia para un mejor entendimiento. Además, se propone un proceso de gramaticalización de ideófonos a predicados expresivos, de lo más periférico a lo más nuclear.
Books by Jaime Pérez González
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](Thesis Chapters by Jaime Pérez González
The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspect and Information Structure, 2021
The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspe... more The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspect and Information Structure
Jaime Pérez González, Ph.D
The University of Texas at Austin, 2021
Supervisor: Nora C. England
This dissertation offers a refined account of person marking in Mocho’, a highly endangered Mayan language spoken by around 50 people in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In previous research, Mocho’ has been described as having two sets of person markings (Set A and B), but here, as one of the main contributions of this research, I show evidences of a third set (Set C). This new finding offers a whole new analysis of the grammar of this language. Thus, this dissertation exhibits the interaction of these three sets of person markings with grammatical aspect, voice, and information structure. To disentangle these person markings, I offer a detailed description of the grammatical aspect, and as a result, aside of the evidence to demonstrate the existence of Set C, I propose an alternative analysis where Mocho’ exhibits a split aspectual system based on the type of verbal predicate that heads the clause: direct vs “reverse”. To this fact, I also propose that Mocho’ has two types of transitive verbs: direct vs “reverse”, and that they are used complementarily depending on two main constraints that target the A [familiar, animate]. This leads us to propose the existence of four different types of voice in Mocho’: passive vs antipassive, direct vs “reverse” voice. To conclude, I offer a whole picture of the reanalysis of the morphosyntactic alignment of these person markings in these two transitive constructions. I exhibit a tripartite alignment motivated by aspect, an active-stative alignment depending on verbal vs non-verbal predicates, and split ergative “reverse” marking where SAPs align ergative alignment and third person becomes neutral. To comprehend this interaction, it is crucial to look at the naturalistic use of the language to capture the nature of the information flow. Therefore, another contribution of this research is the description of the information structure that Mocho’ utilizes to convey certain types of information (focus, contrastive-focus, and topic).
LD&C, 2021
This article seeks to establish a dialogue between the methodological proposals that have been pu... more This article seeks to establish a dialogue between the methodological proposals that have been put forward for linguistic fieldwork and the growing experiences of Indigenous linguists. It is well known that the theorizing of the methodologies that dictate linguists' interactions in their communities of study is carried out from a perspective foreign to both the language and the community. These methodologies are designed for and guided by non-Indigenous academics, predominantly academics from different countries than those of the language and its speakers. This paper argues that the challenges faced by insider and insider-outsider linguists are not the same challenges as those faced by outsider linguists. Thus, this article contributes to a reevaluation of the universality of ethical methodological principles of fieldwork behavior in contemporary linguistics and promotes a local, Indigenous perspective that implies the decolonization of fieldwork methodologies designed by and for foreigners and uncritically adopted by insider and insider-outsider linguists.
Experiencias de campo desde la perspectiva de académicos indígenas del sur de México.
Esta es una tesis de maestría (Lingüística Indoamericana del CIESAS). En este trabajo se describe... more Esta es una tesis de maestría (Lingüística Indoamericana del CIESAS). En este trabajo se describen los predicados expresivos y los ideófonos como dos categorías independientes de las demás clases léxicas conocidas en las lenguas del mundo. Los predicados expresivos son una clase intermedia entre predicados verbales y predicados no-verbales, y muestran ciertas construcciones únicas. Los ideófonos aparecen únicamente en una construcción con verbo ligero, y siguen los rasgos descritos en la tipología. En ambas clases se asume una multimodalidad en su codificación semántica y se propone un análisis que incluye gestos y prosodia para un mejor entendimiento. Además, se propone un proceso de gramaticalización de ideófonos a predicados expresivos, de lo más periférico a lo más nuclear.
The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspect and Information Structure, 2021
The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspe... more The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspect and Information Structure
Jaime Pérez González, Ph.D
The University of Texas at Austin, 2021
Supervisor: Nora C. England
This dissertation offers a refined account of person marking in Mocho’, a highly endangered Mayan language spoken by around 50 people in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In previous research, Mocho’ has been described as having two sets of person markings (Set A and B), but here, as one of the main contributions of this research, I show evidences of a third set (Set C). This new finding offers a whole new analysis of the grammar of this language. Thus, this dissertation exhibits the interaction of these three sets of person markings with grammatical aspect, voice, and information structure. To disentangle these person markings, I offer a detailed description of the grammatical aspect, and as a result, aside of the evidence to demonstrate the existence of Set C, I propose an alternative analysis where Mocho’ exhibits a split aspectual system based on the type of verbal predicate that heads the clause: direct vs “reverse”. To this fact, I also propose that Mocho’ has two types of transitive verbs: direct vs “reverse”, and that they are used complementarily depending on two main constraints that target the A [familiar, animate]. This leads us to propose the existence of four different types of voice in Mocho’: passive vs antipassive, direct vs “reverse” voice. To conclude, I offer a whole picture of the reanalysis of the morphosyntactic alignment of these person markings in these two transitive constructions. I exhibit a tripartite alignment motivated by aspect, an active-stative alignment depending on verbal vs non-verbal predicates, and split ergative “reverse” marking where SAPs align ergative alignment and third person becomes neutral. To comprehend this interaction, it is crucial to look at the naturalistic use of the language to capture the nature of the information flow. Therefore, another contribution of this research is the description of the information structure that Mocho’ utilizes to convey certain types of information (focus, contrastive-focus, and topic).