Description: I am an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto and I am a native speaker of Q'anjob'al, a Mayan language of Guatemala. My research focuses on the documentation, acquisition, and revitalization of Mayan languages. I am currently working on the revitalization of Itzaj, an endangered Mayan language of Guatemala, in collaboration with…
Pedro Mateo Pedro
I am an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto and a native speaker of Q’anjob’al, a Mayan language of Guatemala. My research focuses on the documentation, acquisition, and revitalization of Mayan languages. I am currently working on the revitalization of Itzaj, an endangered Mayan language of Guatemala, in collaboration with the Comunidad Lingüística Itzaj of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala .
I have documented the acquisition of the following Mayan languages: Q’anjob’al , Ch’ol, Mam, Chuj, K’iche’, and Awakateko. I have studied how children acquire ergativity, split ergativity, status suffixes, causatives, motion verbs and directionals, and numeral classifiers, with special focus in Q’anjob’al and Chuj.