MAYAN LANGUAGES:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I Basic Source
Materials
Bibliography
of Mayan Languages and Linguistics,
1978, Lyle Campell et al., (eds.). PM 396l, B 524, LAC (excellent bibliography through l976).
Handbook of
Middle American Indians, 1967, 1969, R. Wauchope (series ed.). Vol 7 (ethnographic sketches of Mayan
groups), Volume 5 (linguistic sketches and other useful materials). F 1434, H
3, LAC (ref).
Supplement to
the Handbook of Middle American Indians, (V.R. Bricker (series ed.), Volume
2 (sketches of Cholti and Huastec), Volume 3 (articles on Yucatecan, Tzotzil,
Quiche, and Chorti literature).
Languages of
Guatemala, l966, Marvin K. Mayers (Ed.) (contains ethnographic and
grammatical sketches of Mayan languages in Guatemala, along with illustrative
texts and a 2OO word comparative word list).
PM 3361, M 3, 1966 LAC.
Estudios de
Cultura Maya published periodically
by the Centro de Estudios Mayas, U.N.A.M. de Mexico. (contains many fine
articles dealing with all aspects of Mayan cultures.
G 972.O15, Es 87.
Journal of
Mayan Linguistics, 1978-, PM 3961, A 36, LAC (journal is preceded by 3
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(U.C.L.A., Latin American Studies Center) PM 3961, A 44. 2) Nora England (ed.), l978, Papers in
Mayan Linguistics (U. Of Missouri, Misc. Pubs. in Anthropology No. 6). 3) Laura Martin (ed.), l979, Papers in
Mayan Linguistics. Columbia, Mo.,
LucasBrothers Pubs.
Annual Review
of Anthropology. 1985. has overview article and helpful bibliography by
Lyle Campbell and Terrence Kaufman, "Mayan Linguistics: Where are We
Now?".
Annual Review
of Anthropology. 1995?. has overview article and helpful bibliography on
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing by Victoria Bricker.
II Maya Culture and Civilization: Background
Introductions
Elizabeth P.
Benson, l977, The Maya World. (pb)
F l435, B 47, l977 LAC.
Peter Canby, The
Heart of the Sky.
M.D. Coe, l966, The
Maya (pb); revised edition l98O (pb)
G 972.Ol5, C 65m, l966.
Freidel, David,
Schele, Linda, and Joy Parker. 1993. Maya
Cosmos. (uses ethnographic data to inform studies of Classic Maya
worldview)
Menchú,
Rigoberta. I Rigoberta Menchú. F1465.2, Q5, M3813, 1984 LAC
Sharer, Robert
(& S.G. Morley, G.W. Brainerd) 1994. The Ancient Maya. (fifth
edition) G 972.Ol5, M 827a, l956, l983, 1994. (most comprehensive account, well
illustrated)
Schele, Linda and
Mary Ellen Miller 1986. The Blood of Kings. (most up to date materials on Maya
kingship, iconography, and hieroglyphic writing)
Schele, Linda and
David Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings. (The first real history of the Classic Maya)
George and Gene
Stuart, l977, The Mysterious Maya.
F l435, S 89, LAC
T. Patrick
Culbert, l974, The Lost Civilization: The Story of the Classic Maya. F L435, C82, LAC
J.E.S. Thompson,
l966, The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization.
G 972.Ol5, T 374r.
Carter Wilson,
1965. Crazy February. G 8l3, W
692 C PCL, LAC & 813, W69l8 C
III Ethnographic: Mayan Societies Today
CAKCHIQUEL F. McBryde, l934, "Solola: A Guatemalan
Town and Cakchiquel Market Center."
Middle American Research Institute Pub. 5, Tulane U. G 9l3.728, T 82, no. 5.
CHORTI C. Wisdom, l94O, The Chorti Indians Of Guatemala. G 97O.3, W 753c.
HUASTEC J. Alcorn, l984 Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany. F1221, H8A42,
1984 (LAC), GN 476.43, A42, 1984.
IXIL B.N. Colby and P. van den Berghe, l969, Ixil Country. G 3O9.l728l, C 672i.
B.N.
Colby and Lore Colby, l981, The Daykeeper. F1465.2, I95 C64, LAC
JACALTEC O. LaFarge and D. Byers, l93l, The Year Bearers People. G 9l3.728, T 82, no. 3.
KANJOBAL O. LaFarge, l947, Santa Eulalia. G 972.8l, L l32s.
Gaspar
Pedro González, A Mayan Life. (La Otra Cara) Yaxte' Press
KEKCHI R. Wilson. 1998. Maya Resurgence in Guatemala.
LACANDON A.M. Tozzer, 19O7, A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the
Lacandones (F l435, T699 LAC)
Bruce, Robert 1976.
Lacandon Dream Symbolism.
Mexico.
MAM M. Oakes, l95l, The
Two Crosses of Todos Santos. G
972.8l, Oa 4t.
MOCHO P. Petrich, 1985. La
Alimentacion Mochó: Acto y Palabra.
Centro de Estudios Indigenas, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas.
MOPAN J.E.S. Thompson, l93O, Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and
Central British Honduras. GN 2, F
4, v. l7, no. 2, LAC.
POCOMAM R.E. Reina, l966, The
Law Of The Saints. G 97O.3, P 756r.
QUICHE R. Bunzel, l952, Chichicastenango. G 9l7.28l, B 887c.
R.M.
Carmack, l98l, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán. F1465.2, Q5 C267, PCL
B.
Tedlock, l982, Time and the Highland Maya (2nd Ed.). F1465.2, Q5 T43, 1982
TOJOLABAL M. Ruz (ed.) Los
Tojolabales (3 volumes).
TZELTAL June Nash, l97O, In the Eyes of the Ancestors. G 3O9.17274, N l74i.
Hermitte,
M. Esther 197O. Poder Sobrenatural y Control Social: en un Pueblo Maya Contemporaneo. Ediciones Expeciales, 57. Mexico:
Instituto Indigenista Interamericano
(Rev. AA 76:92O-1)
Ruz,
Mario 1985. Copanaguastla en un Espejo. Serie Monografias 1,
Centro de
Estudios Indigenas,
Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas.
TZOTZIL E.Z. Vogt, l969. Zinacantán. G 97O.497274, v 868zi.
Kazuyasu, Ochiai 1985.
Cuando Los Santos Vienen Marchando. Rituales Publicos Intercomunitarios Tzotziles. Serie Monografias 3, Centro de Estudios
Indigenas, Univ. Auton. de Chiapas.
TZUTUJIL J. Sexton 1981. Son of Tecun Uman.
YUCATEC R. Redfield and A. Villa Rojas, l934, Chan Kom: A Maya
Village. (also l962 abridged pb. edition).
qF1435.1, C47 R3 or F1435.1, C47 R3, 1962.
T. Rugely
2001. Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century
Yucatan.
IV Folklore/Oral Literature
Annals
of the Cakchiquels. (Cakchiquel - trans.
by Recinos G 972.81, An 72m, 1967 LAC)
Sarah Blaffer,
l972, The Black Man of Zinacantán (Tzotzil). F 1221, T 9, B 55, LAC.
Roberto Bruce,
1974, El Libro de chan K'in (Lacandon cosmological folklore). F 1221,
L2, C 45, LAC-Z, non-circ.
Allen Burns 1982, An
Epoch of MIracles: Oral Literature of hte Yucatec Maya.
The Book of
Chilam Balam of Chumayel. (Yucatec - trans. by Roys qG 972.O15, C 435cE,
l967; Edmonson).
The Book of
Chilam Balam of Tizimín (Yucatec - trans. by Makemson, Edmonson)
Louanna Furbee
(-Losee) (ed.), l976, l979, l98O, Mayan Texts I, II, & III. (Nos. l,
3, & 5 of the International Journal of American Linguistics, Native
American Texts Series of monographs) PM 3968.8, M 39, LAC.
Gary Gossen, l974,
Chamulas in the World of the Sun. (Tzotzil oral literature). F 1221, T
9, G 677, LAC.
C.A. Castro, l965,
Narraciones Tzeltales de Chiapas.
G 97O.3, kT996C, LAC
John Fought, 1972,
Chorti Texts I. PM 3661, Z 73, F
6, LAC.
Charles Andrew
Hofling, 1991, Itzá Maya Texts
(has a grammatical overview)
Eva Hunt, l977, The
Transformation of the Hummingbird. (Tzotzil). F 1221, T 9, H 86, LAC.
Robert
Laughlin, l977, Of Cabbages and Kings. (Tzotzil
folklore). GN 1,S 54, no. 23, LAC.
Robert Laughlin,
l98O, Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax. (Tzotzil texts)
Montejo, Victor,
1991. The Bird Who Cleans the World:
and other Mayan Fables.
Marvin Mayers,
l958, Pocomchí Texts. 497.4,
M453p or MCFICHE 1983, LAC
Montejo, Victor,
1991. The Bird Who Cleans the World:
and other Mayan Fables.
Peñalosa,
Fernando, 1995. Tales and Legend of
the Q'anjob'al Maya. Yaxte' Press.
Peñalosa, Fernando
(ed.) 1992. Cuentos de Don Pedro
Miguel Say. Yaxte' Press. (Kanjobal /
Q'anjob'al texts)
Popol Vuh
(Quiche - best translations are by Recinos (GZ, G913.7281, P 814S, 1947),
Edmonson (F 1421, T 95, no. 35 LAC) , D. Tedlock, 1985). Also see F 1465, P 828, 1961, LAC. G 913.7281, P 814S, 1964, l969.
Mary Shaw (ed.),
l97l, According to our Ancestors. (S.I.L. texts and translations from
ACH, AGU, CAK, CHJ, IXL, JAC, KEK, MOP, PCM, PCH., QUI, TZU, USP). F 1465.3, F 6, S 48, LAC.
Brian Stross,
l977, Love in the Armpit: Tzeltal Tales. F 1221, T 8, L 683, PCL
Brian Stross,
1978, Demons and Monsters: Tzeltal Tales. F 1221, T 8, S 87, LAC
Paul Townsend,
198O, Ritual Rhetoric From Cotzál (Ixil texts)
Paul Townsend
l975, Ixil Texts, With Spanish Translation. (S.I.L. microfiche).
A. Whittaker and
V. Warkentin, l965, Chol Texts of the Supernatural. PM 3649, W 5, LAC.
R.L. Roys, ed. and
trans., 1965, Ritual of the Bacabs. (Yucatec) G 972.O15, R518 TE, LAC
E.R. Craine and
R.C. Reindorp, l979, The Codex Perez and the Book of chilam Balam of Mani.
F 1435.3, C14, C62 LAC.
M. & R.
Ulrich, 1986. Historias de lo Sagrado,
Lo Serio, Lo Sensacional, Y lo Sencillo.
(SIL)
V Mayan Vocabularies
HUA R. Larsen, l955, Vocabulario Huasteco (S.I.L.) FILM 8391 LAC
CHC G. Zimmermann, l955, "Das Cotoque: die Maya-Sprache von
Chicomucelo." (in Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie
l955:59-87) L572.O5,
Z37 PCL
ITZ C. Hoffling, 1993, Itzá Maya Texts With a Grammatical
Overview.
O. Schumann, l97l, Descripción Estructural Del Maya Itzá
del Peten.
(U.N.A.M.) PM 3969, S3 LAC
YUC C. Alvarez, l98O, Diccionario Etnolingüistico Del Idioma Maya
Yucateco Colonial. (U.N.A.M.) (2 volumes; I Mundo Fisico, II
Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Naturales) PM 3969, A48,
LAC
J. Martinez Hernandez (ed.), l929, Diccionario de Motul. G 497, C
498d
J. Pio Perez, l866-77, Diccionario de la Lengua Maya.
GZ 497.22O3, P
415 Z LAC
O. Michelon (ed.), Diccionario de San Francisco (Yucatán).
A. Barrera Vasquez et al, l98O, Diccionario Maya Cordemex.
LAC ref.
(rev. IJAL 49:2O8) 497.O5, IN 8, PCL.
G. Bevington, 1995, Maya For Travelers and Students
LAC R. Bruce, l978, Lacandón Dream Symbolism, Vol. II
(dictionary,
index,
plus). F 1221, L2, B 78, LAC
MOP M. & R. Ulrich, l976, Diccionario Bilinguie.
ITZ C. Hofling, 1997. Itzá
Dictionary
TOJ C. Mendenhall & J. Supple, l949, "Tojolabal Texts and
Dictionary."
(MCMCA 26 - in LAC. Microfilm collection.
C. Lenkersdorf, l979, l98l, B'omak'umal Tojol
Ab'al-Kastiya 1. Vol 1,
& 2. Vol 2. (rev. IJAL 49:214) 497.O5, IN 8, PCL
L. Furbee, l98l, Tojolabal
Maya-English dictionary.
TZE M. Slocum and F. Gerdel, l965, Vocabulario Tzeltal De
Bachajón.
(S.I.L.) PM 4461,
S563, LAC
C. Robles Uribe, 1966, La Dialectología Tzeltal y El
Diccionario
Compacto. G 497.4, R 571d
M. Ruz (ed.) 1986. Vocabulario
de Lengua Tzeltal Segun el Orden de
Copanabastla. Fr. Domingo de Ara. Mexico:
U.N.A.M.
TZO R. Laughlin, l975, The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San
Lorenzo
Zinacantán. qPM 4466, Z5, L 38, LAC
R. Laughlin, 1987, The Great Tzotzil Dictionry Of Santo
Domingo
Zinacantán.
A. Hurley de Delgaty y A. Ruiz Sanchez, l978, Diccionario
Tzotzil de
San Andres con Variaciones Dialectales. (S.I.L.). PM
4466, Z 5,
H 8, LAC.
CHL H.W. & E.W. Aulie, l978, Diccionario Ch'ol (S.I.L.)
PM 3649,
Z5A9, LAC
O. Schumann, 1973, La Lengua Chol de Tila (Chiapas).
CHN S.M. Knowles 1984, A Descriptive Grammar of Chontal Maya
(Appendix V, Lexicon) (Ph.D. Diss. Tulane)
O. Smailus, 1975, El
Maya-Chontal de Acalan. PM3651,
S6318, LAC
CHR C. Wisdom, l949, "Materials on the Chorti Language."
(MCMCA 28- in
LAC microfilm collection) Film, G 8O3, no. 28.
CHLT P. Moran, l935, Arte y Diccionario en
Lengua Cholti. The Maya Society,
Baltimore.
O. Schumann, l973, La Lengua Chol, de Tila (Chiapas).
(U.N.A.M.)
CHJ N. Hopkins, l967, Chuj-Dictionary (m.s.)
J. Maxwell, 1993, Chuj Dictionary (m.s.)
M. Felipe Diego.
1998. Diccionario Chuj (PLFM)
JAC C. Day, n.d. Un Diccionario de Jacalteco (ms. U. of
Rochester)
A. F. Méndez Cruz. 1997.
Diccionario Popti'
QUI M.S. Edmonson, l956, Quiché-English Dictionary. (M.A.R.I.
no. 3O)
F1421, T 95, no. 3O, LAC
A. Garcia H. & S. Yac Sam & D.H. Pontious, n.d. Diccionario
Quiché.
J. de Leon 19 , Diccionario
Quiché-Español PM 4231, D476, LAC
Proyecto Lingüistico Francisco Marroquin 1996, Diccionario Del Idioma
K'iche'
C.N. Teletor, l959, Diccionario Castellano-Quiché y Voces
Castellano-
Pocomam. G497.4, T236D, LAC
CAK C. Saenz de Santa Maria, l94O, Diccionario
Cakchiquel-Español.
G 497, Sa Hed.
R. Blair et al. l981,
Diccionario Español-Cakchiquel-Ingles PCM
Déborah Ruyán Canú, Jo Ann Munson L. and Rafael Coyote
Tum. 1991.
Diccionario Cakchiquel Central y Español. Guatemala: S.I.L.
N. Cojti Macario, M. Chacach Cutzal, & M. Armando
Cali. 1998.
Diccionario Kaqchikel. (PLFM)
PCH M. Mayers, l956, Vocabulario Pocomchi. (S.I.L.)
(microfiche)
KEK G. Sedat, l955, Nuevo Diccionario de las Lenguas K'ekchí y
Española.
PM 3913, Z 5, S 37, LAC.
MAM F.D. de Reynoso/A. Maria Carreno, l9l6, Vocabulario de la
lengua
Mame. G 497, R 276v, l9l6.
J. Maldonado A., J. Ordónez D, and J. Ortiz D., 1986. Diccionario Mam
Filiberto Lopez Gabriel and Wes Collins. 1991
Diccionario de Verbos
Mames U'j Te Pujb'il Yol, Noq Te Ipb'il. Guatemala:
S.I.L.
TEC T. Kaufman, l969, "Teco-a New Mayan Language." IJAL 35:154-74.
497.O5, IN 8, PCL
IXL T. Kaufman, l974, Ixil dicionary. (computer printout,
U.C., Irvine)
L. Asicona Ramírez, D. Méndez Rivera & R.D. Xinic
Bop. 1998.
Diccionario Ixil de San Gaspar Chajul. (PLFM)
MOT T. Kaufman, l967, Preliminary Mochó Vocabulary (W.P. no. 5,
LBRL - U.Cal. Berkeley.)
VI Mayan Grammars
YUC A.M. Tozzer, l92l, A Maya Grammar (also a Dover pb., l977)
G497.4, T669M, LAC.
or PM 3963, T6, 1977, LAC
R. Blair, l965, Yucatec Maya Noun and Verb Morpho-syntax
(l97l Ph.D.
diss., Indiana U. - also MCMCA lO9) PM 3963, B 563,
LAC.
LAC R. Bruce, l968, Gramatica Lacandón. G 497.4, B 83g, l968.
ITZ O. Schumann G., l97l, Descripción Estructural del Del Maya
Itzá Del
Peten, Guatemala, C.A. PM 3969, S3, LAC
Charles Andrew Hofling, 1982. Itzá Maya Morphosyntax From a
Discourse
Perspective.
(Ph.D. diss., Washington Univ., 377pp) CHR
J. Fought, l967, Chortí (Mayan): Phonology, Morphophonemics and
Morphology.
(l967 Ph.D. diss., Yale). Film, G 29O5.
CHL J.J. Attinasi, l973, Lak T'an: A Grammar of the Chol (Mayan)
Word.
(Ph.D. diss., Chicago).
V. Warkentin & R. Scott, l98O, Gramatica Ch'ol.
(S.I.L.) PM 3649,
W3
CHN Susan M. Knowles, 1984, A
Descriptive Grammar of Chontal Maya
(San Carlos Dialect). (unpub.
doctoral dissertation, Tulane
University)
TZE T. Kaufman, l97l, Tzeltal Phonology and Morphology.
Diaz Olivares, Jorge
198O. Manual del Tseltal. Univ. Auton. de Chiapas.
Tuxtla Gutierrez. (338 pp. Mimiographed)
TZO M. Cowan, l969, Tzotzil Grammar.
(S.I.L.). G 498, C 838t
H. Sarles, l966, A Descriptive Grammar of the Tzotzil
Language. (l966
Ph.D. diss., U. of Chicago) PM, 4466, S 275, LAC.
J. Aissen, 1987, Tzotzil Clause Structure.. Reidel Publishers.
J. Haviland, 1981. El
Tzotzil de San Lorenzo Zinacantán.
Centro de
Estudios Mayas. U.N.A.M. Mexico.
TOJ L. Furbee-Losee, l976, The Correct Language, Tojolabal. PM 36OL, F
8, L976, LAC.
Mary Jill Brody, 1982. Discourse Processes of Highlighting
in Tojolabal
Maya Morphosyntax (Mexico). (Ph.D. diss., Washington U. 317 pp)
CHJ N.A. Hopkins, l967, The Chuj Language (Ph.D. diss.,
Chicago).
Laura Ellen Martin, 1977.
Positional Roots in Kanjobal (Mayan). (PhD.
diss., U. of Florida, 464pp)
JAC C. Day, l973, The Jacaltec Language. PM 3889, D 3, LAC.
C. Craig, l977, The Structure of Jacaltec. PM 3889, C
7, LAC.
Margaret J. Dickeman Datz, 198O. Jacaltec Syntactic
Structures and
The Demands of Discourse. (Ph.D. diss. U. of Colorado at Boulder
470 + pp)
QUI James L. Mondloch, l978, Basic Quiché Grammar. (IMS-SUNY
Albany,
2). PM 4231, M
66, LAC.
Mondloch, James Lorin
198O. Voice in Quiché-Maya. (Ph.D.
diss. S.U.N.Y., Albany, 359pp)
SAC John W. DuBois, 1981. The
Sacapultec Language. (PhD. diss.,U.C.
Berkeley, 315 pp)
TZU Jon Philip Dayley, l985, Tzutujil Grammar. UCPL Vol.
107 PM
4471, D39, 1985, PCL.
KEK S. Pinkerton (ed.), l976, Studies in K'ekchi. (PH.D. DISS., U.T.
AUSTIN).
R. Freeze, l97O, Case in a Grammar of K'ekchi. (Ph.D.
diss., U.T.
Austin) TC 197O,
F879, PCL Reserves.
E. Haeserijn V., l966, Ensayo de la Gramatica del K'ekch'i'. G 497.4,
H ll9e.
A. Berinstein, 1985. Evidence
for Multiattachment in K'ekchi Mayan..
Garland Publishers.
J. Alberto Tzul & A Tzimaj Cacao. 1997. Gramatica del Idioma Q'eqchi'
(PLFM)
PCM J.F. Santos Nicolas, A de J. Cervantes Lopez, M. M. Gomez, &
J. G
Benito P. 1997. Gramatica
Del Idioma Poqomam. (PLFM)
MAM N. England l983, A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language.
(based
on her diss. which is in Film, l4.384, LAC)
IXL Glenn Thompson Ayres, 198O.
Un Bosquejo Gramatical del Idioma
Ixil. (Ph.D. diss, U.C. Berkeley)
VII Mayan
Reconstructions
Fisher, William,
1973.Towards The Reconstruction of Proto-Yucatec. (Ph.D. diss., Chicago
(l973) FILM 8465, LAC)
T. Kaufman, l964,
"Materiales linguisticos para el estudio de las relaciones internas y
externas de la familia de idiomas mayanos." (pp. 8l-l36) in E. Vogt
and A. Ruz (eds.), l964, Desarrollo Cultural De Los Mayas. G 972.O15, C76
T. Kaufman, l969,
"Teco--a new Mayan language."
IJAL 35:l54-l74.
497.O5, IN 8, PCL
T.C. Smith Stark,
l976, "Some hypotheses on syntactic and morphological aspects of
Proto-Mayan." in M. McClaran (ed.)
Mayan Linguistics I. PM
3961, A319, V 1, LAC.
J.A. Fox, l978, Proto-Mayan
Accent, Morpheme Structure Conditions and Velar Innovations.. (Ph.D. diss.,
Chicago).
J.S. Robertson,
l977, "A phonological reconstruction of the ergative third-person singular
pronoun in common Mayan." IJAL
43:2O1-lO. 497.O5 IN 8, PCL
J.S. Robertson,
1986. "A reconstruction and
evolutionary statement of the Mayan numerals from twenty to four
hundred." IJAL 52:227-241.
L. Campbell, l977,
Quichean Linguistic Prehistory.
PM 4232, C 35, LAC
T. Kaufman, l972, El
Proto-Tzeltal-Tzotzil: Fonología Comparada y Diccionario Reconstruido
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Stross, B. l973, Reconstructed humor in a Tzeltal
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(497.O5, IN 8, PCL);
Stross, B.
Oppositional pairing in Mesoamerican divinatory day names. Anthropological
Linguistics 25:273 (4O5, AN 89, PCL);
M. Swadesh, l96O,
"Interrelaciones de las lenguas Mayas." Anales del INAH l3:23l-67. qF 1219, M 6O5, LAC Z
non circ.
T. Kaufman,
l976, "Archaeological and
linguistic correlations in Mayaland and associated areas of
Mesoamerica." World
Archaeology. 8(l):lOl-ll. (PCL)
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L. Campbell and T.
Kaufman, l976, "A linguistic look at the Olmecs." American Antiquity. 4l(l):8O-89. (PCL) E 51, A 51.
T. Kaufman, l98O,
"Pre-Columbian borrowing involving Huastec." in K. Klar et al
(eds.), American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies: Papers in Honor of Madison
S. Beeler.
C. Brown and S.
Witkowski, l979, "Aspects of the phonological history of
Mayan-Zoquean. IJAL 45:34-47. (this and
the following 3 articles should be read together). (UGL microfilm),
497.O5, IN 8, PCL
S. Witkowski and
C. Brown, l98l, "Mesoamerican historical linguistics and distant genetic
relationship. American
Anthropologist. 83:9O5-9ll. (PCL)
572.O5, AM 35.
L. Campbell and T.
Kaufman, l98O, "On Mesoamerican linguistics." AA 82:85O-857.
L. Campbell and T.
Kaufman, l983, "Mesoamerican historical linguistics and distant genetic
relationship: getting it straight."
AA 85:362-372.
T.S. Kaufman and
W.M. Norman "An outline of
proto-Cholan phonology, morphology, and vocabulary." in Justeson and Campbell (eds.), Phoneticism
in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing.
VIII Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
V. R. Bricker,
1986, A Grammar of Mayan Hieroglyphs.
M.D. Coe 1999
Breaking the Maya Code
M.D. Coe and M. Van Stone 2001. Reading the Maya
Glyphs
D. Freidel, L.
Schele, and J. Parker. 1993. Maya Cosmos.
S. Houston, O. Chinchilla M., and D Stuart (eds.) 2002.
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing.
J. Justeson, W.M.
Norman, L. Campbell, T. Kaufman
1985. The
Foreign Impact on Lowland
Mayan Language and Script. F 1421, T95,No. 53, LAC
J. Justeson and L.
Campbell 1984. Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic
Writing.
D. Kelley, l976, Deciphering
the Maya Script. qF l435.3, P 6, K 44, LAC. (dated but still useful, and
well illustrated)
B. MacLeod,
1986, An Epigrapher's Annotated
Index to Cholan and Yucatecan Verb Morphology..
S. Martin and N. Grube
2000 Chronicle of the Maya
Kings and Queens.
M.G. Robertson,
ed., l974, Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque. (This and subsequent Mesa Redonda proceedings are very important
for Maya glyph studies). F 1435, P2
M43, 1973, LAC
L. Schele, l982, Maya
Glyphs: The Verbs. F 1435.3, P6
S27, LAC (or UGL)
L. Schele, l983, Notebook
for the Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Workshop at Texas. F 1435.3, P6 N673 '78-'86 LAC Z
L. Schele and M.E.
Miller, 1986. The Blood of Kings.
L. Schele and D.
Freidel, 1990. A Forest of Kings.
L. Schele and
Peter Matthews, 1998. The Code of
Kings
J.E.S. Thompson,
l97l, Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. (3rd ed.) F 1435.3, P 6, T 48, l97l,
LAC. (dated, but still useful)
J.E.S. Thompson,
l962, A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs..
G 497.4, T 374c.
IX Some Useful Books on Mayans
R.E.W. Adams,
1977, The Origins of Maya
Civilization. F 1435, O75, LAC
B. Berlin, l968, Tzeltal
Numeral Classifiers. PM 4461, B 4,
l968.
B. Berlin, D.
Breedlove, & P. Raven, l974, Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification.
F 1221, T 8, B 47, LAC.
V.R. Bricker,
1973, Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas.
F 1221, T 9, B 74, LAC.
P. Brown 1979.
Language, Interaction, and Sex Roles in a Mayan Community: A Study of
Politeness and the Position of Women.
(unpub. Ph.D.
dissertation, U.C. Berkeley)
(treats the Tenejapa Tzeltal)
Dienhart, John
M. 1989. The Mayan Languges: a Comparative Vocabulary. (3
Volumes). Odense: Odense University
Press. ((See his website database
and
M.S. Edmonson
(ed.), l973, Meaning in Mayan Languages. PM 3969, M 4, l973, LAC.
N.C. England.
1992. Autonomía De Los Idiomas
Mayas: Historia e Identidad. (Editorial Cholsamaj)
N.C England (ed.)
1993. Los Idiomas Mayas de
Guatemala. (Editorial Cholsamaj)
E.F. Fischer and
R. McKenna Brown (eds.) 1996. Maya Cultural Acivism in Guatemala. U.T. Press
Susan Garzon, R. McKenna
Brown, Julia Becker Richards, and Wuqu' Ajpub' (eds.) 1998. The Life of the Kaqchikel Lanaguage: Maintenance, Shift and Revitalization. U.T. Press.
E.S. Hunn, l977, Tzeltal
Folk Zoology. F 1221, T 8, H 86,
LAC.
Friar Diego de Landa,
(Gates' ed. & trans.), l978, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest.
(dover pb.)(not as detailed as the Tozzer volume). F 1376, L24613, 1978, LAC
M. López Raquec.
1989. Acerca de los Idiomas Mayas de
Guatemala. (PLFM).
H.L. Neuenswander
& D.E. Arnold (eds.), l977, Cognitive
Studies of Southern Mesoamerica. (S.I.L.).
John S. Robertson,
198O, The Structure of Pronoun
Incorporation in the Mayan Verb complex.
Garland Publishing Co.
John S. Robertson,
1992. The History of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice
in the Mayan Verbal complex. U.T.
Press.
R.L. Roys,
l93l, The Ethnobotany of the Maya.
(ISHI reprint, l976S). G 9l3.728, T 82,
no. 2.
Tedlock,
Dennis. 1993. Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya. (Harper Collins Paperback, edition 1994)
J.E.S. Thompson,
l97O, Maya History and Religion. G 972.Ol5, T 374 may.
A.M. Tozzer (ed.),
l94l, Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatan.(vital early colonial
report on the Yucatecs, includes a glyphic syllabary. G 972.64, L 23r, l94l.
X Articles (Comparative)
Brown,
Penelope 1983. (Review)
Louanna Furbee (ed.), Mayan Texts I, II, and III. IJAl49:337-34O.
Campbell,
Lyle and Terrence Kaufman 1986. "Mesoamerica as a linguistic
area." Language 62:53O-57O.
DuBois,
John W. 1985. Incipient semanticization of possessive ablaut in Mayan. IJAL 51:396-397.
Hopkins,
Nicholas A. 1977. Historical and sociocultural aspects of the
distribution of linguistic variants in highland Chiapas, Mexico. IN
Blount and Sanches (eds.)
Sociocultural Dimensions of Langage Change. Academic Press. (P4O, S55, PCL)
Justeson,
John S. 1985. Hieroglyphic evidence for Lowland Mayan linguistic history. IJAL 51:469-471.
Maxwell,
Judith M. 1985. Subclassification of illness and pain among
speakers of two Mayan langages:
Cakchiquel and Yucatec Maya.
IJAL 51:499-5O1.
Robertson,
John S. 1975. A syntactic example
of Kurlyowicz's fourth law of analogy in Mayan. IJAL 41:14O-47
Robertson,
John S, 1982. The history of the absolutive second-person pronoun form Common
Mayan to Modern Tzotzil. IJAL 48:421-435.
Robertson,
John S, 1984a From symbol to
icon: the evolution fo the pronominal
system from Common Mayan to Modern Yucatecan.
Language 59:529-54O.
Robertson,
John S, 1984b An oppositional
explanation of the shift from the Common Mayan to the Modern Chiapan pronouns. Quaderni de Semantica 4:193-2O6.
Robertson,
John S, 1985. A re-reconstruction
of the ergative 1sg for Common Tzeltal-Tzotzil based on Colonial
documents. IJAL 51:555-58.
Robertson,
John S, 1986. A reconstruction and evolutionary statement of the Mayan numerals
from twenty to four hundred. IJAL 52:227-241.
Swadesh,
Mauricio. Interrelaciones de las
lenguas Mayanses. Anales del
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. 13:231-267. (qF 1219, M 6O5 Z, LAC))
XI Unpublished Dissertations on Mayan
Languages
Hires, Marla
Korlin 1981. The Chilam Balam of Chan Kan (Transcription and Annotated Translation). (unpub. doctoral diss., Tulane Univ., 372
pp.)
Pye, Clifton
Lowel 198O. The Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes in Quiché Mayan. (unpub. doctoral diss., U of Pittsburgh, 343
pp.)
Trechsel, Frank
Rinard 1981. A Categorial Treatment of Quichean (Mayan) Ergativity.
(unpub. doctoral diss., Univ. of Texas, Austin, 2O3 pp.)
Walter, Stephen
Leslie 198O. Application of a Cognitive Model of Linguistic Structure To
the Analysis of Selected Problems in Tzeltal (Mayan) Grammar. (unpub.
doctoral diss., Univ. of Texas, Arlington, 336 pp.)
ARTICLES
ON MAYAN LANGUAGES
ACATEC
Peñalosa,
Fernando 1987. Major syntactic structures of Acatec
(Dialect of San Miguel Acatán).
IJAL 53:281-31O.
CHONTAL
Knowles-Berry,
Susan M. 1987 Negation in Chontal Mayan.
IJAL 53:327-347.
Keller,
K. l955, The Chontal (Mayan) numeral system, IJAL 2l:258-275 (497.O5, IN 8, PCL)
HUASTEC
Kaufman,
Terrence 198O. Pre-Columbian borrowing
involving Huastec. American Indian and
Indoeuropean Studies in Honor of Madison Beeler, ed. K. Klar, M. Langdon, and S. Silver, pp. 1O1-12. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and
Monographs, no. 16. The Hague: Mouton.
Kaufman,
Terrence. 1985. Aspects of Huastec dialectology and
historical phonology. IJAL 51:473-476.
JACALTEC
Breitborde,
Lawrence B. 1975. Communicating insults and compliments in
Jacaltec. AL 17:381-4O3.
Craig,
Colette G. 1976. Properties of basic and derived subjects in
Jacaltec. IN C. Li (ed.) Subject and
Topic. pp.
Kaufman,
Terrence 1975. Review of Day, The Jacaltec Language. AA 77:123-4.
KEKCHI
de
Cormier, Christopher. 19 . Kekchi particle CAQ: relations in time and space.
Freeze,
Ray A. 1976. Possession in K'ekchi' (Maya).
IN DiPietro and Blansit (eds.) The Third Lacus Forum, pp. 6O-76.
Freeze,
Ray A. 19 . Whence the future in K'ekchi'(Maya).
MAM
England,
Nora 1976. The development of the Mam person system. IJAL 42:259-261.
England,
Nora 197 . Space as a Mam grammatical
theme.
Robertson,
John S. 1987. The origins of the Mamean pronominals: A Mayan / Indo-European typological comparison. IJAL
53:74-85.
QUICHE
Earle,
Duncan M. 1986. The metaphor of the day in Quiché: notes on the nature of everyday life. in G.H. Gossen (ed.) Symbol and Meaning
Beyond the Closed Community.
DuBois,
J. 19
. The discourse basis of ergativity.
Language
Tedlock,
Barbara, 19 Quiché Maya dream
interpretation.
TOJOLABAL
Brody,
Jill 1986. Repetition as a rhetorical and conversational device in Tojolabal
(Mayan). IJAL 52:255-274.
TZELTAL
Berlin,
Brent Categories of eating in Tzeltal and Navajo", IJAL 33:1-6.
Berlin,
B. 1963, "A possible paradigmatic structure for Tzeltal pronominals,"
AL 5:1-5 (4O5 AN 89, PCL);
Berlin,
B. & A.K. Romney, l964,
"Descriptive semantics of Tzeltal numeral classifiers," AA 66(2), part 2:79-98 (572.O5, AM 35 NS,
PCL;
Brown,
Penelope. 1998. How and why are women
more polite: some evidence from a Mayan community. in J. Coates (ed.)
Language and Gender (pp. 81-100)
TZOTZIL
Gossen,
Gary 197 . Temporal and spatial equivalents in Chamula ritual symbolism.
Gossen,
Gary. 197 . To speak with a heated
heart.
YUCATEC
Hanks,
W.F. 1984. "Sanctification,
structure, and experience in a Yucatec ritual event." (Journal of American
Folklore 97(384):131-166.
Hanks,
William F. 1985 The proportionality of shifters in
Yucatec. IJAL 51:43O-432.
Nida,
E. & M. Romero Castillo, l95O, "The pronominal series in Maya
(Yucatec)," IJAL l6:l93-l97.
(497.O5, IN 8, PCL).
B.
Stross, "The Language of Zuyua" Amer. Ethnol. 1O:15O-164 (GN
1, A53, PCL);
Cakchiquel Word Order and Markedness in Kaqchikel downloadable rtf file
Mam Todos Santos not much on language, some on learning
Mam
Joshua Smith's Grammar of Tzeltal from Stuart's World English translation
downloadable
Tzeltal and Tzotzil of Pantelhó by Pete Brown
(Distribution Department, ILV
M-191, PO Box 02-5345, Miami, FL
33102-5345)
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