The Mayan LanguagesJudith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado Routledge, 2017 M05 12 - 790 páginas 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. The Mayan Languages:
Consisting of topical chapters on the history, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse structure, 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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Mayan history and comparison Lyle Campbell | |
Aspects of the lexicon of protoMayan and its earliest | |
Language contacts within Mayan Danny | |
An overview of language in ancient | |
Phonology and phonetics Nora C England and Brandon | |
Morphology Gilles Polian | |
Pluractionality in Mayan Robert Henderson | |
Language in context | |
The sociolinguistics of Mayan languages Sergio Romero | |
Mayan conversation and interaction John B Haviland | |
Poetics Rusty Barrett | |
Grammar sketches | |
Kiche Telma A Can Pixabaj | |
Mam Nora C England | |
Alignment patterns Roberto Zavala Maldonado | |
Complement clauses Judith Aissen | |
Information structure in Mayan Judith Aissen | |
Semantics | |
Organization of space Jürgen Bohnemeyer | |
Focus interrogation and indefinites Scott AnderBois | |
Qanjobal Eladio Mateo Toledo | |
Tojolabal Alejandro Curiel Ramírez del Prado | |
Tseltal and Tsotsil Gilles Polian | |
Chol Jessica Coon | |
Comparative Maya Yucatec Lacandon Itzaj and Mopan Maya Charles Andrew Hofling | |
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The Mayan Languages Judith Aissen,Nora C. England,Roberto Zavala Maldonado Vista previa limitada - 2017 |
The Mayan Languages Judith Aissen,Roberto Zavala Maldonado,Nora England Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |