Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference

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The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands

Danny Law(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 19. Juni 2014

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LANGUAGE CONTACT, INHERITED SIMILARITY AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface & acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Language contact in the Maya Lowlands
1.1 Contact and inherited similarity
1.2 Identifying contact effects between related languages
1.3 Mayan languages
1.4 The Maya Lowlands: Definition and history
1.5 The linguistic geography of the Maya Lowlands, past and present
1.5.1 The Preclassic period (2200 B.C. - 200 A.D.)
1.5.2 The Classic period (200-900 A.D.)
1.5.3 The Postclassic period (900-1521 A.D.)
1.5.4 Differences in current linguistic geography
1.6 Previous work on Mayan language contact
1.7 Overview of the book
Chapter 2. Mayan languages and linguistic areas
2.1 Phonological diffusion
2.2 Phonological diffusion in Mayan
2.2.1 pM */r/ to /j/ (merged with pM */j/)
2.2.2 pM */?/ to /n/ (merged with pM */n/)
2.2.3 Loss of vowel length
2.2.4 Merging of pM */x/ and */h/
2.2.5 Fronting of pM */q(')/
2.2.6 Innovation of /p'/ phoneme
2.3 Mechanisms of transfer and Lowland phonemic innovations
Chapter 3. Mayan languages and linguistic areas
3.1 Processes of contact-induced change beyond phonemes
3.2 Contact-induced change in Mayan aspect
3.3 Contact-induced changes in Mayan person marking
3.3.1 Pattern borrowing in person markers
3.3.2 Matter borrowing in person markers
3.4 Contact-induced changes in Mayan quantification
3.5 Contact-induced changes in Mayan numeral classifiers
3.5.1 Pattern borrowing in numeral classifiers
3.5.2 Matter borrowing in numeral classifiers
3.6 Contact-induced changes in Mayan word order and agent focus
3.7 The Lowland Maya region as a linguistic area
3.7.1 History of the 'linguistic area' concept
3.7.2 Defining the Lowland Mayan linguistic area
3.7.3 Explaining the Lowland Mayan linguistic area
Chapter 4. Person marking and pattern borrowing in Lowland Mayan languages
4.1 Language contact and the category of person
4.2 Person marking in Mayan languages
4.3 Types of pronouns and pronoun borrowing
4.4 Pattern borrowing in Lowland Mayan person marking
4.4.1 Third person suppletive to transparent plural forms
4.4.2 Second person
4.4.3 First person
4.4.4 Suffixation of absolutive
4.5 Overlapping isoglosses and layers of borrowing
Chapter 5. Cholan, Yukatekan and matter borrowing in person markers
5.1 Matter borrowing in person markers
5.2 Shared innovations and matter borrowing in Set A
5.3 Shared innovations in Set B
5.4 Relative chronology of changes in person marking
5.5 Person marking and borrowability in Mayan
Chapter 6. Contact effects in the Lowland Mayan aspectual systems
6.1 Borrowed aspectual morphology in Lowland Mayan languages
6.2 The 'ti' completive proclitic
6.3 The '-oom' perfect incompletive
6.3.1 The -oom in hieroglyphs
6.3.2 -oom in Colonial Yukatek
6.3.3 Borrowing or shared retention?
6.4 The progressive with *iyuwal
6.5 Matter borrowing and areal linguistic processes
Chapter 7. Pattern borrowing and split ergativity
7.1 Ergativity in Mayan
7.2 The 'Lowland' type of split ergativity
7.3 The areal distribution of Lowland style split ergativity
7.4 Peripheral influence: The verbal form of the incompletive intransitive
7.4.1 Poqom
7.4.2 Ixil
7.4.3 Ch'orti'
7.5 The semantic range of the nominative-accusative pattern
7.5.1 Languages with a more limited range of accusative pattern
Chapter 8. Secondary contact effects
8.1 The internal ramifications of language contact
8.2 Secondary contact effects in the completive aspect
8.3 Secondary contact effects in transitive verbs
8.4 Contact-induced grammaticalization and contact-induced drift
8.4.1 Contact-induced grammaticalization and Poqom
8.4.2 Contact-induced drift
Chapter 9. Language ideology and contact
9.1 The consequences of linguistic similarity
9.2 Language boundaries in mind and society
9.2.1 Managing discrete linguistics systems in the mind
9.2.2 Mental organization and contact-induced change
9.2.3 Language boundaries and speech communities
9.2.4 Ideologies of language contact
9.2.5 The linguistic consequences of social difference
9.3 Mayan ideologies of language and community
Chapter 10. Conclusions
10.1 Lowland Mayan language contact
10.2 Implications of relatedness for methods in contact linguistics
10.2.1 Regularity of sound change
10.2.2 Trees and waves
10.3 Convergence and paradigmatic interchangeability
10.4 Systemic overlap and interlingual adjustments
10.5 Conclusion: Mayan diversity and unity in the linguistic past
References
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