ABSTRACT
K’iche’ belongs to the Eastern group of Mayan languages and is part of the Greater K’ichean group of languages. This chapter presents as much of the K’iche’ acquisition data as possible in a form that is accessible to other researchers. It provides a brief overview of K’iche’ grammar, discusses the cultural context of the work on K’iche’, and also presents data on lexical, phonological, morphological, and syntactic development in K’iche’. Currently, there are roughly a million speakers of K’iche’ living primarily in the western highland region of Guatemala. Inflectional stems in K’iche’ belong to one of the following classes: noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, positional, and particle. Semantic concepts that are expressed as adjectives in English translate into lexical adjectives or intransitive verbs in K’iche’. K’iche’ has two forms of passive and antipassive voices in addition to the active voice.
