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 6 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 and linguistics. Written by a team of experts in the field, The Mayan Languages presents in-depth accounts of the linguistic features that characterize the thirty-one languages of the family, their historical evolution, and the social context in which they are spoken.…mehr
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 6 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 and linguistics. Written by a team of experts in the field, The Mayan Languages presents in-depth accounts of the linguistic features that characterize the thirty-one languages of the family, their historical evolution, and the social context in which they are spoken.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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: K'iche' Telma Can Pixabaj Chapter 19: Mam Nora C. England Chapter 20: Q'anjob'al Eladio Mateo Toledo Chapter 21: Tojolabal Alejandro Curiel Ramírez del Prado Chapter 22: Tseltal and Tsotsil Gilles Polian Chapter 23: Chol Jessica Coon Chapter 24: Comparative Maya (Yucatec, Lacandon, Itzaj and Mopan Maya) Charles Andrew Hofling Abbreviations Contributors
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: K'iche' Telma Can Pixabaj Chapter 19: Mam Nora C. England Chapter 20: Q'anjob'al Eladio Mateo Toledo Chapter 21: Tojolabal Alejandro Curiel Ramírez del Prado Chapter 22: Tseltal and Tsotsil Gilles Polian Chapter 23: Chol Jessica Coon Chapter 24: Comparative Maya (Yucatec, Lacandon, Itzaj and Mopan Maya) Charles Andrew Hofling Abbreviations Contributors
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