Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script
Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.
Martha J. Macri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martha J. Macri plays a role.
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Subjects Languages of South America | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Writing and literacy
Articles
2010 Language documentation: Whose ethics? Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 37–48 | Article
Ethical issues as they relate to documentation of endangered languages include consideration of the rights and obligations of the various parties who have interests in such work. Ownership, copyright, and access restrictions are examined from the perspectives of the language documenters, of the… read more
2010 Working with language communities in unarchiving: Making the J. P. Harrington notes accessible Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 213–220 | Article
The purpose of the J. P. Harrington Database Project is to transcribe and code the linguistic and ethnographic notes Harrington made of California Indian languages, particularly those for which his documentation was the primary record. Showing Native people how to contribute to the creation of this… read more
2000 Numeral Classifiers and Counted Nouns in the Classic Maya Inscriptions Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 13–36 | Article
Yucatecan, Ch’olan, and Tzeltalan languages have numeral classifiers which obligatorily follow numbers. Although such classifiers are not present in every number expression, several numeral classifiers occur frequently in the Classic Maya inscriptions. The most common of them, the period glyphs,… read more
2000 Introduction to Special Issue: Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 1–11 | Article
