Martha J. Macri

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha J. Macri is involved.

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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.

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Macri, Martha J. 2010 Language documentation: Whose ethics? Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 37–48 | Article

Ethical issues as they relate to documentation of endangered languages include consideration of the rights and obligations of the various parties who have interests in such work. Ownership, copyright, and access restrictions are examined from the perspectives of the language documenters, of the… read more

Macri, Martha J. 2010 Working with language communities in unarchiving: Making the J. P. Harrington notes accessible Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 213–220 | Article

The purpose of the J. P. Harrington Database Project is to transcribe and code the linguistic and ethnographic notes Harrington made of California Indian languages, particularly those for which his documentation was the primary record. Showing Native people how to contribute to the creation of this… read more

Macri, Martha J. 2001 Review of Boone (): Stories in red and black: Pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs Written Language & Literacy 4:2, pp. 247–251 | Review

Macri, Martha J. 2000 Numeral Classifiers and Counted Nouns in the Classic Maya Inscriptions Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 13–36 | Article

Yucatecan, Ch’olan, and Tzeltalan languages have numeral classifiers which obligatorily follow numbers. Although such classifiers are not present in every number expression, several numeral classifiers occur frequently in the Classic Maya inscriptions. The most common of them, the period glyphs,… 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

Macri, Martha J. 1999 Review of Fischer (1997): Rongorongo: The Easter Island script: History, traditions, text Written Language & Literacy 2:1, pp. 152–156 | Review