LANGUAGE CONTACT, INHERITED SIMILARITY AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface & acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Language contact in the Maya Lowlands -- 1.1 Contact and inherited similarity -- 1.2 Identifying contact effects between related languages -- 1.3 Mayan languages -- 1.4 The Maya Lowlands: Definition and history -- 1.5 The linguistic geography of the Maya Lowlands, past and present -- 1.5.1 The Preclassic period (2200 B.C. - 200 A.D.) -- 1.5.2 The Classic period (200-900 A.D.) -- 1.5.3 The Postclassic period (900-1521 A.D.) -- 1.5.4 Differences in current linguistic geography -- 1.6 Previous work on Mayan language contact -- 1.7 Overview of the book -- Chapter 2. Mayan languages and linguistic areas -- 2.1 Phonological diffusion -- 2.2 Phonological diffusion in Mayan -- 2.2.1 pM */r/ to /j/ (merged with pM */j/) -- 2.2.2 pM */ŋ/ to /n/ (merged with pM */n/) -- 2.2.3 Loss of vowel length -- 2.2.4 Merging of pM */x/ and */h/ -- 2.2.5 Fronting of pM */q(')/ -- 2.2.6 Innovation of /p'/ phoneme -- 2.3 Mechanisms of transfer and Lowland phonemic innovations -- Chapter 3. Mayan languages and linguistic areas -- 3.1 Processes of contact-induced change beyond phonemes -- 3.2 Contact-induced change in Mayan aspect -- 3.3 Contact-induced changes in Mayan person marking -- 3.3.1 Pattern borrowing in person markers -- 3.3.2 Matter borrowing in person markers -- 3.4 Contact-induced changes in Mayan quantification -- 3.5 Contact-induced changes in Mayan numeral classifiers -- 3.5.1 Pattern borrowing in numeral classifiers -- 3.5.2 Matter borrowing in numeral classifiers -- 3.6 Contact-induced changes in Mayan word order and agent focus -- 3.7 The Lowland Maya region as a linguistic area -- 3.7.1 History of the 'linguistic area' concept.

3.7.2 Defining the Lowland Mayan linguistic area -- 3.7.3 Explaining the Lowland Mayan linguistic area -- Chapter 4. Person marking and pattern borrowing in Lowland Mayan languages -- 4.1 Language contact and the category of person -- 4.2 Person marking in Mayan languages -- 4.3 Types of pronouns and pronoun borrowing -- 4.4 Pattern borrowing in Lowland Mayan person marking -- 4.4.1 Third person suppletive to transparent plural forms -- 4.4.2 Second person -- 4.4.3 First person -- 4.4.4 Suffixation of absolutive -- 4.5 Overlapping isoglosses and layers of borrowing -- Chapter 5. Cholan, Yukatekan and matter borrowing in person markers -- 5.1 Matter borrowing in person markers -- 5.2 Shared innovations and matter borrowing in Set A -- 5.3 Shared innovations in Set B -- 5.4 Relative chronology of changes in person marking -- 5.5 Person marking and borrowability in Mayan -- Chapter 6. Contact effects in the Lowland Mayan aspectual systems -- 6.1 Borrowed aspectual morphology in Lowland Mayan languages -- 6.2 The 'ti' completive proclitic -- 6.3 The '-oom' perfect incompletive -- 6.3.1 The -oom in hieroglyphs -- 6.3.2 -oom in Colonial Yukatek -- 6.3.3 Borrowing or shared retention? -- 6.4 The progressive with *iyuwal -- 6.5 Matter borrowing and areal linguistic processes -- Chapter 7. Pattern borrowing and split ergativity -- 7.1 Ergativity in Mayan -- 7.2 The 'Lowland' type of split ergativity -- 7.3 The areal distribution of Lowland style split ergativity -- 7.4 Peripheral influence: The verbal form of the incompletive intransitive -- 7.4.1 Poqom -- 7.4.2 Ixil -- 7.4.3 Ch'orti' -- 7.5 The semantic range of the nominative-accusative pattern -- 7.5.1 Languages with a more limited range of accusative pattern -- Chapter 8. Secondary contact effects -- 8.1 The internal ramifications of language contact.

8.2 Secondary contact effects in the completive aspect -- 8.3 Secondary contact effects in transitive verbs -- 8.4 Contact-induced grammaticalization and contact-induced drift -- 8.4.1 Contact-induced grammaticalization and Poqom -- 8.4.2 Contact-induced drift -- Chapter 9. Language ideology and contact -- 9.1 The consequences of linguistic similarity -- 9.2 Language boundaries in mind and society -- 9.2.1 Managing discrete linguistics systems in the mind -- 9.2.2 Mental organization and contact-induced change -- 9.2.3 Language boundaries and speech communities -- 9.2.4 Ideologies of language contact -- 9.2.5 The linguistic consequences of social difference -- 9.3 Mayan ideologies of language and community -- Chapter 10. Conclusions -- 10.1 Lowland Mayan language contact -- 10.2 Implications of relatedness for methods in contact linguistics -- 10.2.1 Regularity of sound change -- 10.2.2 Trees and waves -- 10.3 Convergence and paradigmatic interchangeability -- 10.4 Systemic overlap and interlingual adjustments -- 10.5 Conclusion: Mayan diversity and unity in the linguistic past -- References -- Index.