Mayan Languages

<p><em>The Mayan Languages</em> 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. </p><p></p><p>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 <i>The Mayan Languages</i> 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. </p><p></p><p><em>The Mayan Languages</em>:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>provides detailed grammatical sketches of approximately a third of the Mayan languages representing most of the branches of the family; </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>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; </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>provides detailed state-of-the-art discussions of the principal advances in grammatical analysis of Mayan languages; </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>includes ample discussion of the use of the languages in social conversational and poetic contexts. </li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>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. </p>