Wichmann Søren (Ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America: A Comprehensive Guide

De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. — 928 p. — (The World of Linguistics 12).The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.Frontmatter
Table of contents
List of Contributors
Preface, Søren Wichmann
Topics.
Missionary linguistics in Mesoamerica, Catherine Fountain
The acquisition of Middle American languages, Barbara Pfeiler and Clifton Pye
Space in languages in Mexico and Central America, Carolyn O’Meara, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Alyson Eggleston and Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Families and languages.
Extinct lineages and unclassified languages of Mexico, Raoul Zamponi
Uto-Aztecan, Jason D. Haugen
Purepecha: An isolate non-Mesoamerican language in Mesoamerica, Claudine Chamoreau
Comparative Oto-Mangean grammar research, Terrence Kaufman
The Popolocan languages, Evangelia Adamou
The Zapotecan languages, Eric W. Campbell and George Aaron Broadwell
The Oto-Pamean languages, Enrique L. Palancar
Totonacan languages, David Beck
The Chontal language family, Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
A typological overview of Mixe-Zoquean languages, Roberto Zavala Maldonado and Søren Wichmann
Mayan languages: An overview of their properties, Eladio Mateo Toledo
Tol (Jicaque), Steffen Haurholm-Larsen and Jeff Pynes
Xinkan and Lencan, Chris Rogers and Frauke Sachse
Emerging sign languages of Mesoamerica: A review, Olivier Le Guen
Middle American Spanish, Claudia Parodi and Marta Luján
Index of languages
Index of names
Index of subjects