ABSTRACT
The study of information structure in Mayan has proceeded in tandem with the study of morphology and syntax. This is hardly surprising, given the range of morphosyntactic devices that are harnessed by the various languages to encode information structure relations. Such devices include word order, voice, and agreement, as well as specialized syntactic constructions and morphology. A sensitivity to the status of elements in the ‘flow’ of information has thus been an unavoidable correlate of basic grammatical description. Our goal here is to survey the present understanding of information structure in Mayan and to identify some major gaps in what we know.
