Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script

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

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
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

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General