Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Nora C. England is Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also Director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.Roberto Zavala Maldonado is Researcher and Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico. He was also Joint-Director of the Project for the Documentation of Languages of Meso-America.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala MaldonadoPart 1: Language Development, History, and ChangeChapter 2: Mayan Language Acquisition Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler, Pedro Mateo PedroChapter 3: Mayan History and ComparisonLyle CampbellChapter 4: Aspects of the Lexicon of proto-Mayan and its Earliest Descendants Terrence KaufmanChapter 5: Language Contacts with(in) Mayan Danny LawChapter 6: Classic Mayan: An Overview of Language in Ancient Hieroglyphic ScriptDanny Law and David StuartPart 2: GrammarChapter 7: Phonology and Phonetics Nora C. England and Brandon O. BairdChapter 8: Morphology Gilles PolianChapter 9: Alignment Patterns Roberto Zavala MaldonadoChapter 10: Complement Clauses Judith AissenChapter 11: Information Structure in Mayan Judith AissenPart 3: SemanticsChapter 12: Organization of Space Jürgen BohnemeyerChapter 13: Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites Scott AnderBoisChapter 14: Pluractionality in Mayan Robert HendersonPart 4: Language in ContextChapter 15: The Labyrinth of Diversity: the Sociolinguistics of Mayan Languages Sergio RomeroChapter 16: Mayan Conversation and Interaction John B. HavilandChapter 17: Poetics Rusty BarrettPart 5: Grammar SketchesChapter 18:

Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Nora C. England is Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also Director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.Roberto Zavala Maldonado is Researcher and Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico. He was also Joint-Director of the Project for the Documentation of Languages of Meso-America.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala MaldonadoPart 1: Language Development, History, and ChangeChapter 2: Mayan Language Acquisition Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler, Pedro Mateo PedroChapter 3: Mayan History and ComparisonLyle CampbellChapter 4: Aspects of the Lexicon of proto-Mayan and its Earliest Descendants Terrence KaufmanChapter 5: Language Contacts with(in) Mayan Danny LawChapter 6: Classic Mayan: An Overview of Language in Ancient Hieroglyphic ScriptDanny Law and David StuartPart 2: GrammarChapter 7: Phonology and Phonetics Nora C. England and Brandon O. BairdChapter 8: Morphology Gilles PolianChapter 9: Alignment Patterns Roberto Zavala MaldonadoChapter 10: Complement Clauses Judith AissenChapter 11: Information Structure in Mayan Judith AissenPart 3: SemanticsChapter 12: Organization of Space Jürgen BohnemeyerChapter 13: Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites Scott AnderBoisChapter 14: Pluractionality in Mayan Robert HendersonPart 4: Language in ContextChapter 15: The Labyrinth of Diversity: the Sociolinguistics of Mayan Languages Sergio RomeroChapter 16: Mayan Conversation and Interaction John B. HavilandChapter 17: Poetics Rusty BarrettPart 5: Grammar SketchesChapter 18:

Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Nora C. England is Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also Director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.Roberto Zavala Maldonado is Researcher and Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico. He was also Joint-Director of the Project for the Documentation of Languages of Meso-America.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala MaldonadoPart 1: Language Development, History, and ChangeChapter 2: Mayan Language Acquisition Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler, Pedro Mateo PedroChapter 3: Mayan History and ComparisonLyle CampbellChapter 4: Aspects of the Lexicon of proto-Mayan and its Earliest Descendants Terrence KaufmanChapter 5: Language Contacts with(in) Mayan Danny LawChapter 6: Classic Mayan: An Overview of Language in Ancient Hieroglyphic ScriptDanny Law and David StuartPart 2: GrammarChapter 7: Phonology and Phonetics Nora C. England and Brandon O. BairdChapter 8: Morphology Gilles PolianChapter 9: Alignment Patterns Roberto Zavala MaldonadoChapter 10: Complement Clauses Judith AissenChapter 11: Information Structure in Mayan Judith AissenPart 3: SemanticsChapter 12: Organization of Space Jürgen BohnemeyerChapter 13: Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites Scott AnderBoisChapter 14: Pluractionality in Mayan Robert HendersonPart 4: Language in ContextChapter 15: The Labyrinth of Diversity: the Sociolinguistics of Mayan Languages Sergio RomeroChapter 16: Mayan Conversation and Interaction John B. HavilandChapter 17: Poetics Rusty BarrettPart 5: Grammar SketchesChapter 18: