Language and dialect in the Maya hieroglyphic script
Contributors: Vail, Gabrielle; Macri, Martha J.; Hofling, Charles Andrew; Wald, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1941-; Lacadena García-Gallo, Alfonso; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Series: Written language and literacy -- v. 3, no. 1
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Maya languages; Writing; Mayan Inscriptions; Maya Manuscripts
Notes: "The papers in this volume result from a symposium held at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Seattle..." -- P. [1].

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Table of contents: title: Introduction to special issue: language and dialect in the Maya hieroglyphic script / Gabrielle Vail & Martha J. Macri; title: Numeral classifiers and counted nouns in the classic Maya inscriptions / Martha J. Macri; title: Issues of language and ethnicity in the postclassic Maya codices / Gabrielle Vail; title: Bilingualism in the Maya codices and the books of Chilam Balam / Victoria R. Bricker; title: Mayan texts, scribal practices, language varieties, language contacts, and speech communities: commentary on papers by Macri, Vail, and Bricker / Charles Andrew Hofling; title: Temporal deixis in colonial Chontal and Maya hieroglyphic narrative / Robert F. Wald; title: Antipassive constructions in the Maya glyphic texts / Alfonso Lacadena; title: Aspect, deixis, and voice: commentary on papers by Wald and Lacadena / VIctoria R. Bricker; title: Obituaries. Floyd Lounsbury / Stephen D. Houston ; Linda Richmond Schele / David H. Kelley ; Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov / Nikolai Grube & Matthew Robb ; Ben Leaf / John Harris.