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

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: Electronic 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.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central