Gabrielle Vail

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gabrielle Vail is involved.

Title

Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script

Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri

The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,… read more

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.

Articles

Vail, Gabrielle 2003 Review of Coe & Van Stone (2001): Reading the Maya glyphs Written Language & Literacy 6:2, pp. 250–254 | Review

Vail, Gabrielle 2000 Issues of Language and Ethnicity in the Postclassic Maya Codices Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 37–75 | Article

Researchers have long attributed the prehispanic Maya codices to a Yucatecan provenience, based on their style and on the occurrence of Yucatec words spelled phonetically in the glyphic texts. This interpretation has recently been challenged by two studies that demonstrate the presence of Ch’olan… read more

Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri 2000 Introduction to Special Issue: Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 1–11 | Article