Danny Law
List of John Benjamins publications in which Danny Law is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Book series
Title
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands
Danny Law
This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.
Articles
2019 Clifton Pye. The comparative method of language acquisition research Diachronica 36:2, pp. 294–297 | Review
2017 Language mixing and genetic similarity: The case of Tojol-ab’al Diachronica 34:1, pp. 40–78 | Article
Definitions of ‘mixed’ or ‘intertwined’ languages derive almost entirely from studies of languages that combine elements from genetically unrelated sources. The Mayan language Tojol-ab’al displays a mixture of linguistic features from two related Mayan languages, Chuj and Tseltal. The systematic… read more
2009 Pronominal borrowing among the Maya Diachronica 26:2, pp. 214–252 | Article
A central concern in the study of language contact phenomena is the question of what linguistic features are more or less likely to be borrowed, and why. Pronominal borrowing, at least the direct borrowing of the phonological forms, is often ranked among the least common outcomes of language… read more