From 893b9a289fab87cf8b880dccd4c86c47142f9459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Bauer <75776786+yax-lakam-tuun@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:43:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [#29] Working on basic structure --- terminology/terminology.tex | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/terminology/terminology.tex b/terminology/terminology.tex index e322f1f..780edd5 100644 --- a/terminology/terminology.tex +++ b/terminology/terminology.tex @@ -491,17 +491,10 @@ \section{The language of Maya Hieroglyphs} (\Cref{chap:classic-mayan}). \subsection{Basic structure} -\todo{Everything} -% LTeX: enabled=false -\blockquote[{\cite[24]{kettunenhelmke2020}}]{The word order in the Maya hieroglyphic texts, -and in the modern Mayan languages alike, usually follows the verb-object-subject (VOS) pattern -(unlike English which usually employs SVO-constructions). -However, very often in the hieroglyphic texts the object is missing or omitted, and clauses -usually begin with a date, giving us a typical formula of Maya texts: date-verb-subject. -Dates can often take up the major part of the texts, verbs only one or two glyph blocks in -each sentence, and personal names with titles can be as lengthy as the titles of European monarchs. -} - % LTeX: enabled=true +Classic Mayan and modern Mayan languages alike have a word other which usually follows +the verb-object-subject structure (\cite[24]{kettunenhelmke2020}). +In non-transitive sentences the pattern is verb-subject. +When a date is involved, the date comes first like so: date-verb-(object-)subject \subsection{Phonology} In Classic Maya, there are five different vowels and twenty distinct consonants.