The History of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice in the Mayan Verbal Complex

by John S. Robertson

Book Overview

Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay public as archaeology and glyphic decipherment reveal more of its secrets. In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred in the core of Mayan grammar from the earliest, reconstructed ancestral language down through the colonial languages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029276958X
• ISBN13: 9780292769588
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"