Temporal reference in Lakandon Maya
  
      The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
            Lakandon Maya is an endangered and underdocumented language belonging to the Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family. The Lakandones have been the subject of many publications devoted to their religious traditions and their forest dwelling way of life, but surprisingly little work has been done describing their language. The present investigation proposes an extensive documentation of the linguistic practices of Lakandon speakers with a focus on the use of deictic time words/expressions and their meanings. The results of the investigation will consist of a grammatical sketch, a dictionary of 3000+ entries, and a corpus of annotated texts.
Primary investigator: Henrik Bergqvist
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Mexico,               Mexico,               Philippines,               Central America,               South-Eastern Asia,               Mexico,               Asia,               Americas,               United States of America
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): SOAS, University of London
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £20,990.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2001
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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