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The Mayan Languages

Author : Judith Aissen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351754793
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Mayan Languages written by Judith Aissen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Mayan Languages

Author : John Dienhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayan Languages written by John Dienhart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meaning in Mayan Languages

Author : Munro S. Edmonson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110869675
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Meaning in Mayan Languages by : Munro S. Edmonson

Download or read book Meaning in Mayan Languages written by Munro S. Edmonson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental Trends; Development in Typical Child; Conclusion; References; VII. Cultural Significance and Lexical Retention in Tzeltal-Tzotzil Ethnobotany; Introduction; The Comparative Inventory; Analytic Categories; Cognate Sets of Tzeltal-Tzotzil Plant Names; Cultural Significance and Lexical Retention; References; VIII. Compound Place Names in Chuj and other Mayan Languages; Introduction; Sources and Identification of Chuj Place Names; The Nature of Chuj Geographical Nomenclature; Compound Chuj Place Names; Comparative Data on Compound Mayan Place Names; References.

Meaning in Mayan languages

Author : Munro Sterling Edmonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Meaning in Mayan languages written by Munro Sterling Edmonson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Our Language

Author : Susan Garzon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788991
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Our Language written by Susan Garzon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The native Maya peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize have been remarkably successful in maintaining their cultural identity during centuries of contact with and domination by outside groups. Yet change is occurring in all Mayan communities as contact with Spanish-speaking Ladino society increases. This book explores change and continuity in one of the most vital areas of Mayan culture—language use. The authors look specifically at Kaqchikel, one of the most commonly spoken Mayan languages. Following an examination of language contact situations among indigenous groups in the Americas, the authors proceed to a historical overview of the use of Kaqchikel in the Guatemalan Highlands. They then present case studies of three highland communities in which the balance is shifting between Kaqchikel and Spanish. Wuqu' Ajpub', a native Kaqchikel speaker, gives a personal account of growing up negotiating between the two languages and the different world views they encode. The authors conclude with a look at the Mayan language revitalization movement and offer a scenario in which Kaqchikel and other Mayan languages can continue to thrive.

A Comparison of Four Mayan Languages

Author : Sandra Chigüela
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book A Comparison of Four Mayan Languages written by Sandra Chigüela and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thorough Linguistic Comparison of four Mayan Languages: Tz'utujil, K'iche', Ch'ol and Yucatec. Three chapters include a Comparison of these languages with Classical Maya Vocabulary. At the back of the book there are Categorized Vocabulary Lists and a 'Day-to-Day' Phrases Section per each language. Version 2.0 is a special extended edition with additional material not present in the original text.

A Comparison of Four Mayan Languages

Author : Sandra Chigüela
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Comparison of Four Mayan Languages written by Sandra Chigüela and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete and Thorough Linguistic Analysis of four Mayan Languages (Tz'utujil, K'iche', Ch'ol & Yucatec). The Vocabulary of these four Mayan Languages is compared with that of Classical Maya, while all four are compared to one another in order to create a Complete Synopsis of their Linguistic Similarities and Differences.

New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics

Author : Heriberto Avelino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144382481X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics by : Heriberto Avelino

Download or read book New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics written by Heriberto Avelino and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics is a collection of papers synthesizing the research on Mayan languages at the beginning of the 21st century. One of the most prominent features of the articles included in this book is the balance between the use of the most recent linguistic theories and the empirical data from which analyses are drawn. A definitive characteristic of the book is that all of the papers provide rich and new descriptive material gathered in the field by their respective authors. The findings reported in this book have implications for a deeper understanding not only of particular aspects of the individual grammars of the Mayan family, but might have consequences for linguistic theory as well as for typological and universal generalizations. The volume brings together linguists of diverse areas of specialization phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, epigraphy, lexicography and anthropological linguistics to discuss recent analyses and data from a variety of Mayan languages. For its broad scope summarizing the recent methodologies, theoretical models and findings of research in Mayan languages, the volume is of particular interest to the academic community at large, including researchers, teachers and students alike.

Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference

Author : Danny Law
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270473
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference written by Danny Law and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretical, historical, contact, typological, socio- and anthropological linguistics. This linguistically complex situation involves serious engagement with issues of methods for distinguishing contact-induced similarity from inherited similarity, the role of social and ideological variables in conditioning the outcomes of language contact, cross-linguistic tendencies in language contact, as well as the effect that inherited similarity can have on the processes and outcomes of language contact.

Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics written by Lyle Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics

Author : Institute for Mesoamerican studies (Albany, NY)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics written by Institute for Mesoamerican studies (Albany, NY) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heart of the Matter

Author : Wesley M. Collins
Publisher : SIL International
ISBN 13 : 1556713975
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of the Matter written by Wesley M. Collins and published by SIL International. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins suggests that Maya-Mam customs as different as constructing a house, staying healthy, seeking God, disciplining children, agreeing to a contract, or just speaking the language, all originate from the same concept- a search for the center. This is far more than mere balance, long recognized as a Mayan cultural value. Rather, center space is a place of physical and metaphysical peace, acceptance, meaning, health, happiness and "home." Collins also shows how cenderedness is deeply embedded in the grammar of Mam- its lexicon, morphology, syntax, and discourse structure. This relatedness of Mam culture and linguistics provides an unusually detailed contribution to the debate on linguistic relativity and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Collins combines historical accounts with firsthand ethnographic and linguistic methodology to explore the concept of centeredness. Detailed accounts of his personal interaction with the Mam illustrate and enrich the book's concepts. This volume will interest students of the relationship between language and culture generally, and specifically those interested in the study of Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.

A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language

Author : Nora C. England
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029276247X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language written by Nora C. England and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today by over 400,000 people in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The result of over three years of extensive fieldwork in Guatemala, A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language is based on the dialect of Mam spoken by 12,000 people in San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. England organizes A Grammar of Mam according to two complementary principles: to analyze Mam following basically traditional levels of grammatical description and to present material in such a way that the background information necessary for understanding each topic of discussion shall have been previously provided. Accordingly, England's analysis of the sound system and morphophonemic processes of Mam is followed by a description of the characteristics of root, inflectional, and derivational morphology. Chapters on phrase structure precede two chapters on sentence-level syntax. A Grammar of Mam is of particular interest in analyzing a Mayan language that is both syntactically and morphologically ergative and that is innovative in the direction of strengthening the ergative system. Indeed at all levels of linguistic organization Mam is innovative, and for this reason it is uniquely interesting both historically and theoretically.

The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script

Author : John S. Justeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script written by John S. Justeson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition

Author : Robert J. Sharer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748179
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition written by Robert J. Sharer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.

Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica

Author : Barbara Pfeiler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110923149
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica written by Barbara Pfeiler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).

A Dictionary of the Maya Language

Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Maya Language written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many sample sentences provide a window onto the richness of everyday communication, with its mixture of wit, epithets, insults, riddles and aphorisms, and exchanges of information.