Proto-maya y lingüística diacrónica. Una (breve y necesaria) introducción

Proto-Mayan and diachronic linguistics. A (brief and necessary) introduction. The goal of this paper is to underline the importance of the diachronic linguistics and the possibilities which it offers from the interdisciplinary perspective. The co-operation with archaeology and history seems to be sp...

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Main Author: José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2007-12-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/6383
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Summary:Proto-Mayan and diachronic linguistics. A (brief and necessary) introduction. The goal of this paper is to underline the importance of the diachronic linguistics and the possibilities which it offers from the interdisciplinary perspective. The co-operation with archaeology and history seems to be specially productive and successful, as it will be show here. In addition, the Mayan case is exceptional, in fact unique among the American native languages, because of its old written records, as well as the richness of documents during the Colonial times.
ISSN:0037-9174
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