New Mayan Dictionary

Mayan Historical Linguistics in a New Age

Mayan historical linguistic research has progressed at a healthy pace since the 1970s. The recent decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing and the publication, in the last decade, of a large cohort of high quality linguistic descriptions of several Mayan languages, many of them written by native speakers of those languages, have opened a floodgate of new linguistic data that promises t...

Lippincott's New Medical Dictionary

Introduction to Mayan Linguistics

This special issue of Language and Linguistic Compass is dedicated to a three-part survey of the grammatical structure of Mayan languages. The articles in this collection focus on core, well-studied aspects of Mayan linguistics: phonology (Bennett), syntax (Coon), and semantics (Henderson). The perspective taken is broadly typological, but also informed by theoretical issues in formal linguisti...

Mayan phonology

This article provides an overview of the phonology of Mayan languages. The principal aim is to describe the commonalities and differences between phonological systems in the Mayan family. I have also tried to highlight some phonological patterns which are interesting from a typological or theoretical perspective. There are many intriguing aspects of Mayan phonology which remain understudied; I’...

Mayan historical linguistics and epigraphy: a new synthesis

Recent years have seen rapid advancement in our understanding of the phonology and grammar of Classic Ch’olan and the distribution of Lowland Mayan languages in the Classic period. The control over the data has advanced to such an extent that Classic Ch’olan should no longer be considered chiefly a product of reconstruction, but rather a language in its own right, providing fresh input to histo...