Author: Stross, Brian ; editor:
Title: Mayan Languages and their Speakers
Description: [Bloomington, IN], Department of Anthropology, 1987. orig.wrappers. 28x21cm, (243) pp, This is "Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 29, No. 4 - Winter 1987", completely devoted to this theme.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Stencilled. Stapled. Pagination runs ii, 329-570 pp. Contents: Mayan Languages and their Speakers : An Introduction; Linguistic Decay in Chontal Mayan: The Speech of Semi-Speakers; Huastec Pronouns; The Linguistic History of Mayan Year; Diachronic Change in Tzeltalan Kinship Based on Universal Kin Notational System; Alien Spouses in 18th Century Guatemala: Implications for Language Change & Distribution; Abbreviation Conventions in the Maya Inscriptions & the Books of Chilam Balam; ISIG Repition on Some Early Copan Stelae; Xibal Balam Ahau; Xibalba or Xibalbe; Discourse Framing in Itza Maya Narrative; Some Aspects of Chuj Discourse; Particles Borrowed from Spanish as Discourse Markers in Mayan Languages; Variation in Mayan Narrative; The Interdependence of Language & Culture in the Bear Story in Spanish & Mocho; Tzeltal Dialects: New & Old.

Keywords: Mayan Linguistics, Amerind Languages, Linguistic, Indian Language, Anthropological, Central America, American Indians, ,