Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference : the story of linguistic interaction in the Maya Lowlands

Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference : the story of linguistic interaction in the Maya Lowlands / Danny Law, University of Texas at Austin.

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the dire...

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Main Author: Law, Danny, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory.
Subjects:
Languages in contact.
Mayan languages > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Languages in contact
Mayan languages > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
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