A Historical Grammar of the Maya Language of Yucatan: 1557-2000 Mark S. Kiselica and the pressures of modern

and the pressures of modern life

and its social and cultural heritage

Edited by two leading figures in the field

vying for control of their own public narratives

and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter

A Historical Grammar of the Maya Language of Yucatan: 1557-2000 Mark S. Kiselica and the pressures of modernVictoria Bricker's painstaking work is based on almost one thousand provenienced notarial documents and letters written by native speakers of Yucatec Maya from the colonial times to the modern day. Because the documents are dated and also specify the town where they were written, Bricker was able to determine when and where grammatical changes first appeared in the language and the trajectory of their movement across the Yucatan peninsula. This