Complex sentence: Beginning in the 1980s the American linguist Carolyn MacKay has done fieldwork in Misantla Totonac speaking communities and she has published a grammar and several articles about the language.
Split into simpler sentences: Beginning in the 1980s, the American linguist Carolyn MacKay has done fieldwork in Misantla Totonac speaking communities. She has published a grammar and several articles about the language.