The Mayan languages / edited by Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, and Roberto Zavala Maldonado.

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  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xii, 777 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Routledge language family series [More in this series]
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    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 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.0The Mayan Languages: provides detailed grammatical sketches of approximately a third of the Mayan languages, representing most of the branches of the family; includes a section on the historical development of the family, as well as an entirely new sketch of the grammar of "Classic Maya" as represented in the hieroglyphic script; provides detailed state-of-the-art discussions of the principal advances in grammatical analysis of Mayan languages; includes ample discussion of the use of the languages in social, conversational, and poetic contexts. Consisting of topical chapters on the typology, history, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the Mayan languages, this book will be a resource for researchers and other readers with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition, and linguistic typology.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1 Introduction / Judith Aissen Aissen, Judith, Nora C. England England, Nora C., Roberto Zavala Maldonado Maldonado, Roberto Zavala 1
    • Part 1 Language Development, History, and Change
    • 2 Mayan language acquisition / Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton, Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara, Pedro Mateo Pedro Pedro, Pedro Mateo 19
    • 3 Mayan history and comparison / Lyle Campbell Campbell, Lyle 43
    • 4 Aspects of the lexicon of proto-Mayan and its earliest descendants / Terrence Kaufman Kaufman, Terrence 62
    • 5 Language contacts with(in) Mayan / Danny Law Law, Danny 112
    • 6 Classic Mayan: An of overview of language in ancient hieroglyphic script / Danny Law Law, Danny, David Smart Smart, David 128
    • Part 2 Grammar
    • 7 Phonology and phonetics / Nora C. England England, Nora C., Brandon O. Baird Baird, Brandon O. 175
    • 8 Morphology / Gilles Polian Polian, Gilles 201
    • 9 Alignment patterns / Roberto Zavala Maldonado Maldonado, Roberto Zavala 226
    • 10 Complement clauses / Judith Aissen Aissen, Judith 259
    • 11 Information structure in Mayan / Judith Aissen Aissen, Judith 293
    • Part 3 Semantics
    • 12 Organization of space / Jurgen Bolmemeyer Bolmemeyer, Jurgen 327
    • 13 Focus, interrogation, and indefinites / Scott AnderBois AnderBois, Scott 348
    • 14 Pluraetionality in Mayan Robert Henderson 362
    • Part 4 Language in Context
    • 15 The labyrinth of diversity: The sociolinguistics of Mayan languages / Sergio Romero Romero, Sergio 379
    • 16 Mayan conversation and interaction / John B. Haviland Haviland, John B. 401
    • 17 Poetics / Rusty Barren Barren, Rusty 433
    • Part 5 Grammar Sketches
    • 18 K'iche' / Telma A. Can Pixabaj Pixabaj, Telma A. Can 461
    • 19 Mum / Nora C. England England, Nora C. 500
    • 20 Q'anjob'al / Eladio Mateo Toledo Toledo, Eladio Mateo 533
    • 21 Tojolahal / Alejandro Curiel Ramírez del Prado Prado, Alejandro Curiel Ramírez del 570
    • 22 Tseltal and Tsotsil / Gilles Polian Polian, Gilles 610
    • 23 Ch'ol / Jessica Coon Coon, Jessica 648
    • 24 Comparative Maya (Yucatec, Lacandon, Itzaj, and Mopan Maya) / Charles Andrew Hofling Hofling, Charles Andrew 685.
    ISBN
    • 9780415738026 (hardcover)
    • 0415738024 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2016049735
    OCLC
    975371814
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