Los primeros vocabularios del popti’, recopilados por Eduard Seler, Edwin Rockstroh/Otto Stoll y Karl Sapper

Ulrich Wölfel; Julián Pérez Camposeco

doi:10.18441/ind.v39i2.41-76

The First Popti’ Vocabularies, Compiled by Eduard Seler, Edwin Rockstroh/ Otto Stoll, and Karl Sapper

Authors

Ulrich Wölfel Bonn University, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1929-3600
Julián Pérez Camposeco Proyecto Arqueológico de la Región de Chaculá (PARCHA), Guatemala

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v39i2.41-76

Keywords:

Eduard Seler, Edwin Rockstroh, Otto Stoll, Karl Sapper, Popti’ (Jakaltek), vocabularies of Q’anjob’al languages from the 19th century, history of Mayan language linguistics

Abstract

The present article aims to re-evaluate Eduard Seler’s linguistic fieldwork on Popti’. By means of a comparison with two contemporary vocabularies of the same language, published by Otto Stoll and Karl Sapper, it is intended to evaluate both Seler’s ability as a linguist and the historical context in which he operated. By identifying the errors present in the entries of the vocabularies and analyzing their probable causes, an approach to the situation in the field and the problems faced by each researcher is achieved. As an additional result, the three vocabularies with corrected entries are presented.

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Published

2023-01-08

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2022)

Section

Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Eduard Seler (1849–1922)

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