Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference

The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands

Danny Law

| University of Texas at Austin

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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 direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretical, historical, contact, typological, socio- and anthropological linguistics. This linguistically complex situation involves serious engagement with issues of methods for distinguishing contact-induced similarity from inherited similarity, the role of social and ideological variables in conditioning the outcomes of language contact, cross-linguistic tendencies in language contact, as well as the effect that inherited similarity can have on the processes and outcomes of language contact.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.328

Table of Contents

Preface & acknowledgements	ix–x
List of abbreviations	xi–xii
Chapter 1. Language contact in the Maya Lowlands	1–30
Chapter 2. Mayan languages and linguistic areas: Areal phonology	31–46
Chapter 3. Mayan languages and linguistic areas: Syntactic, semantic and morphological features	47–72
Chapter 4. Person marking and pattern borrowing in Lowland Mayan languages	73–96
Chapter 5. Cholan, Yukatekan and matter borrowing  in person markers	97–108
Chapter 6. Contact effects in the Lowland Mayan aspectual systems: Direct borrowing	109–128
Chapter 7. Pattern borrowing and split ergativity	129–142
Chapter 8. Secondary contact effects	143–156
Chapter 9. Language ideology and contact	157–174
Chapter 10. Conclusions: Contact among related languages	175–186
References	187–204
Index	205–206

“[This monograph] explores old ideas and advances new ones that contribute to the theory of contact-induced borrowing. It is a reservoir of concepts that will long be cited by Mayanists and by theorists of language contact alike.”

John S. Robertson, Brigham Young University, in Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 57:1 (2015)

“Law analyzes language contact between lowland Mayan languages, demonstrating that the study of contact between related languages is not only possible, but that such studies have important implications for understanding language contact more broadly. [...] Indeed, such research may reveal patterns that are quite different from those typically found in research on contact between unrelated languages. In addition to providing a unique and interesting case study, the book challenges a number of common assumptions within the field and makes a major theoretical contribution to the study of language contact.”

Rusty Barret, University of Kentucky, in Journal of Language Contact Vol. 2016, pp. 1-3

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Subjects

Linguistics

Languages of North America

Historical linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Contact Linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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