The linguistics of Maya writing / edited by Søren Wichmann.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wichmann, Søren, 1964-
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2004], ©2004.
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Physical Description:vi, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The linguistic epigraphy of Maya Writing: recent advances and questions for future research / Søren Wichmann
  • Chontal linguistic influence in ancient Maya writing: intransitive positional verbal affixation / Zachary X. Hruby and Mark B. Child
  • The languages of the Dresden Codex: legacy of the classic Maya / Robert F. Wald
  • The orthographic distinction between velar and glottal spirants in Maya hieroglyphic writing / Nikolai Grube
  • Disharmony in Maya hieroglyphic writing: linguistic change and continuity in classic society / Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and John Robertson
  • On the representation of the glottal stop in Maya writing / Alfonso Lacadena and Søren Wichmann
  • Passive voice in classic Mayan texts: CV-h-C-aj and -n-aj constructions / Alfonso Lacadena
  • On the morphology of intimate possession in Mayan languages and classic Mayan glyphic nouns / Marc Zender
  • Telling time in classic-Ch'olan and Acalan-Chontal narrative: the linguistic basis of some temporal discourse patterns in Maya hieroglyphic and Acalan-Chontal texts / Robert F. Wald
  • Tense and aspect in Maya hieroglyphic script / John Robertson, Stephen Houston, and David Stuart
  • A world in a grain of sand: transitive perfect verbs in the classic Maya Script / Barbara MacLeod / The grammar of the half-period glyph / Søren Wichmann
  • The preferred argument structure of classic lowland Mayan texts / David F. Mora-Marín
  • Ch'olti': an analysis of the Arte de la lengua Ch'olti by Fray Francisco Morán / Mareike Sattler.