Home The Mayan Languages by Judith Aissen (Editor); Nora C. England (Editor); Roberto Zavala Maldonado (Editor) (ISBN: 9780415738026)

Stock photo: cover may vary

The Mayan Languages Hardback - 2017

Name: The Mayan Languages
Price: 301.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780415738026

by Judith Aissen (Editor); Nora C. England (Editor); Roberto Zavala Maldonado (Editor)

Add to wish list

Browse more copies for sale ↓

Reader reviews for The Mayan Languages

Write a review for this book

Important Terms and Guidelines

Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.

Your review must not include:

Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

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.

Details

Title The Mayan Languages
Author Judith Aissen (Editor); Nora C. England (Editor); Roberto Zavala Maldonado (Editor)
Binding Hardback
Pages 778
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2017
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9780415738026 / 0415738024
Weight 3.55 lbs (1.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.8 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 4.57 cm)
Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Civilization, Indians of Mexico - Languages - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016049735
Dewey Decimal Code 497.415

About the author

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 Antropologa Social (CIESAS) in Mexico. He was also Joint-Director of the Project for the Documentation of Languages of Meso-America.