Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000)

Authors

Gabrielle Vail

Martha J. Macri

The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, dealing with the linguistic features of these texts.

[Written Language & Literacy, 3:1] 2000. 198 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 30 June 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.3.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Introduction to Special Issue: Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri	1–11
Numeral Classifiers and Counted Nouns in the Classic Maya Inscriptions Martha J. Macri	13–36
Issues of Language and Ethnicity in the Postclassic Maya Codices Gabrielle Vail	37–75
Bilingualism in the Maya Codices and the Books of Chilam Balam Victoria R. Bricker	77–115
Mayan Texts, Scribal Practices, Language Varieties, Language Contacts, and Speech Communities: Commentary on Papers by Macri, Vail, and Bricker Charles Andrew Hofling	117–122
Temporal Deixis in Colonial Chontal and Maya Hieroglyphic Narrative Robert F. Wald	123–153
Antipassive Constructions in the Maya Glyphic Texts Alfonso Lacadena	155–180
Aspect, Deixis, and Voice: Commentary on Papers by Wald and Lacadena Victoria R. Bricker	181–188
Obituaries
Floyd Lounsbury Stephen D. Houston	189–193
Linda Richmond Schele David H. Kelley	193–195
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov Nikolai Grube and Matthew Robb	195–196
Ben Leaf John Harris	197

Subjects

Linguistics

Writing and literacy

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Languages of South America

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General