790 Pages
by Routledge

790 Pages
by Routledge

790 Pages
by Routledge

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mayan languages... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction



Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado





Part 1: Language Development, History, and Change



Chapter 2: Mayan Language Acquisition



Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler, Pedro Mateo Pedro





Chapter 3: Mayan History and Comparison



Lyle Campbell





Chapter 4: Aspects of the Lexicon of proto-Mayan and its Earliest Descendants



Terrence Kaufman





Chapter 5: Language Contacts with(in) Mayan



Danny Law





Chapter 6: Classic Mayan: An Overview of Language in Ancient Hieroglyphic Script



Danny Law and David Stuart





Part 2: Grammar



Chapter 7: Phonology and Phonetics



Nora C. England and Brandon O. Baird





Chapter 8: Morphology



Gilles Polian





Chapter 9: Alignment Patterns



Roberto Zavala Maldonado





Chapter 10: Complement Clauses



Judith Aissen





Chapter 11: Information Structure in Mayan



Judith Aissen





Part 3: Semantics



Chapter 12: Organization of Space



Jürgen Bohnemeyer





Chapter 13: Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites



Scott AnderBois





Chapter 14: Pluractionality in Mayan



Robert Henderson





Part 4: Language in Context



Chapter 15: The Labyrinth of Diversity: the Sociolinguistics of Mayan Languages Sergio Romero





Chapter 16: Mayan Conversation and Interaction



John B. Haviland





Chapter 17: Poetics



Rusty Barrett





Part 5: Grammar Sketches



Chapter 18:

Biography



Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.





Nora C. England is Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also Director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.





Roberto Zavala Maldonado is Researcher and Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico. He was also Joint-Director of the Project for the Documentation of Languages of Meso-America.