Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become
extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been …

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad
roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and …

2 If a language were found to have different basic verb-subject orders for transitive and
intransitive subjects, then basic word order would have to be based on an analysis of both …

This paper presents an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Mayan languages. The
focus is primarily descriptive, but the article also attempts to frame the sound patterns of …

Desde el siglo XVI se vienen publicando gramáticas del idioma K'ichee', la diferencia se
encuentra en su contenido y estructura como en el objetivo que motiva a los autores. Los …

This dissertation describes six syntactic complex predicates in Q'anjob'al (Maya) spoken in
Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: the Directional Construction (DIRC), Verbal …

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents
composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of …

This thesis explores topics pertaining to the syntax and semantics of nominal expressions,
with a focus on definite, indefinite, demonstrative, and pronominal elements. The data are …

The discussion on bilingualism in Latin America divides the countries in Latin America into
groups–Mexico‐Central American region, Caribbean region, Andean region, and Southern …

Although many aspects of the historical phonology of Mayan languages have been worked
out, development of the syllable nuclei of words has received insufficient attention. A …