Linguistic inheritance, social difference, and the last two thousand years of contact among Lowland Mayan languages

The analysis of language contact phenomena, as with many types of linguistic analysis, starts from the similarity and difference of linguistic systems. This dissertation will examine the consequences of linguistic similarity and the social construction of difference in the ‘Lowland Mayan linguistic...

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Main Author: Law, Daniel Aaron
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3207