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May 15, 2026The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistiqueOpen Access

The syntax of quantifiers in Chuj

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JRJustin RoyerCBCristina BuenrostroPJPeter Jenks

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Overview

Provides a syntactic analysis of quantifiers in Chuj, highlighting their obligatory position and categorization.

Key Points

  • This research aims to describe and analyze different types of quantifiers in the Chuj language, emphasizing their syntactic behavior.
  • Descriptive analysis of quantifiers in Chuj language
  • Classification of quantifiers into predicative A-quantifiers, focus D-quantifiers, and basic D-quantifiers
  • Examination of sentence-initial position for quantifiers
  • Three distinct types of quantifiers are identified in Chuj: predicative A-quantifiers, focus D-quantifiers, and basic D-quantifiers.
  • Predicative A-quantifiers appear sentence-initially due to Chuj's predicate-initial structure.
  • Focus D-quantifiers are specified with an [A $'$ ] feature, leading to their required initial positioning.

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Royer et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a06b888e7dec685947aafachttps://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2025.10016
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