The Mayan Languages (Routledge Language Family) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415738024 ISBN 13: 9780415738026

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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:

• 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 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415738024
• ISBN 13: 9780415738026
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 778
• Herausgeber: Aissen Judith, England Nora C., Maldonado Roberto Zavala
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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