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David Mora-Marín's Linguistics Web Site
I'm originally from Costa Rica
(Moravia, San José)
but have lived in the United States
since August of 1992 (Lawrence, Kansas; Albany, New York; Chapel
Hill, North Carolina).
I am a husband to Heather, who's from Kansas,
and a dad to Siubhan, who's now six, and Aodhfionn, who was born on April 8,
2005.
Contents
Upcoming Events!
Two important events will
take place this April (see special website here):
1) Wednesday, April 16th,
11 am-1 pm, Room 1009, Global Education
Center:
Discussion Forum on
indigenous issues in Guatemala with members of cultural group U K’ux Käj, U K’ux Ulew
(Heart of the Sky, Heart of the Earth) from Guatemala.
2) Thursday, April 17th,
5-7 pm, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall:
Dance performance by group U K’ux Käj, U K’ux Ulew,
with narrative in Mam, one of the more than twenty Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala,
spoken by about a million people.
3) Friday, April 18th,
3-5 pm, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall:
Symposium on Mesoamerican
Languages and Linguistics, with three invited speakers, five lectures in
total. For more information go here.
Final Program here.
Academic Background
I'm a linguistic anthropologist specializing in Mesoamerican
linguistics and epigraphy. My position is supported jointly by the
Linguistics Department and the Consortium for Latin American Studies at
UNC/Duke. I obtained my Ph.D. from SUNY-Albany in 2001, and my B.A.
from KU-Lawrence in 1996.
Research
Interests
My research involves comparative and historical reconstruction of
Mayan morphosyntax and the study of the origin, orthography, and grammatical
structure of ancient Mayan hieroglyphic texts. I am also interested in
the study of the linguistic history of other Mesoamerican languages and
scripts (e.g. Epi-Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan),
and in the origin of Mesoamerican writing systems more specifically.
Also, I also deal with issues of language and power (Bourdieu, Foucault,
Weber) and civilizational studies (Wallerstein), as well as on the art
history and archaeology of ancient Costa Rican societies, especially the
Precolumbian jade lapidary tradition.
Current
and Ongoing Projects
Current: Primary Standard Sequence: Database Compilation,
Grammatical Structure, Primary Documentation. The publication of
the results will take place in two phases. The first part will focus on
the paleographic background and the readings of important glyphs. The
second part will focus on the grammatical structure and the historical development
of the PSS dedicatory formula. Supported by FAMSI Grant #02047. http://www.famsi.org/reports/02047/index.html.
Ongoing: Late Preclassic Inscription Documentation (LAPIDA).
Supported by FAMSI Grant #99049. http://www.famsi.org/reports/99049/index.html.
Current: Diachronic Ch'olan-Tzeltalan Morphosyntactic Reconstruction.
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Courses
Fall 2004: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING 170)
Spring 2005: Survey of
Mesoamerican Languages (LING 115), Historical Linguistics (LING 101)
Summer 2005: Yucatec Maya, Introduction to Linguistics (LING 30)
Fall 2005: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING 170), Mesoamerican Writing Systems (LING 115)
Spring 2006: Historical Linguistics (LING 101), Mayan Languages and Culture
(LING 115)
Summer 2006: Yucatec Maya,
Introduction to Linguistics (LING 30)
Fall 2006: Language Variation
and Change (LING 202), Introduction to Mayan Art and Writing (LING 415)
Spring 2007: Introduction to
Yucatec Maya (LING 415.015), Structure of Mayan Art and Writing (LING
415.001)
Summer 2007: Yucatec Maya
Summer 2007: Introduction to
Language (LING 101)
Fall 2007: Language Variation
and Change (LING 202), Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics (LING 415.015)
Spring 2008: Introduction to
Language, Honors (LING 101H), Mesoamerican Writing Systems (LING 415.015)
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Recent Papers (Some in Progress) and Project Reports
Below you may print or download some of my recent papers; most are
works in progress, so please contact me (davidmm@unc.edu) if you are planning
to cite them in case I have made major revisions. At the bottom you may
find a list with most of my publications.
Affixation Conventionalization:
Explanation of Conventionalized Spellings in Mayan Writing.
PDF. Paper presented at the 2004-2005 SSILA Conference in Oakland,
California. For accompanying PowerPoint slideshow click here.
(Links disabled temporarily.)
Kaminaljuyu Stela 10: Script Classification and
Linguistic Affiliation. PDF. (Longer version of paper
presented at the Midwest Mesoamericanist Conference in March of 2003.
Revised version based on this manuscript is currently in press in Ancient
Mesoamerica.) (See below for published version from Ancient
Mesoamerica.)
Pre-Ch’olan as the Standard Language of
Classic Lowland Mayan Texts. PDF. (Paper presented at the SSILA
meetings in January of 2003.) **WORK IN PROGRESS: PLEASE CONTACT AUTHOR
BEFORE CITING IN A PAPER**
Pre-Proto-Ch'olan as the Standard
Language of Classic Lowland Mayan Texts. PDF. (Longer paper
presented at the Crabs and Glyphs meeting in September of 2004.) Note that
in the PDF version I changed the use of "Pre-Ch'olan" (see shorter
paper above) to "Proto-Ch'olan" in order to avoid using the term
"Pre-Ch'olan" which is most often used to refer to linguistic
traits arrived at through internal reconstruction. In the more recent
version of this longer paper I have decided to use the term
"Pre-Proto-Ch'olan" and distinguish it from both
"Pre-Ch'olan" (internal reconstruction of Proto-Ch'olan traits) and
"Proto-Ch'olan". More on this later... **WORK IN
PROGRESS: PLEASE CONTACT AUTHOR BEFORE CITING IN A PAPER**
Affixation Conventionalization Hypothesis:
An Explanation of Regularly Disharmonic and Synharmonic Spellings in Mayan Writing.
PDF. (Alternative explanation of Mayan orthographic practices to that
by Houston et al. 1998, 2004.) **WORK IN PROGRESS: PLEASE CONTACT
AUTHOR BEFORE CITING IN A PAPER**
Full Phonetic Complements and Semantic
Classifiers: Implications for Mayan Orthographic Conventions.
PDF. (A description of a rare spelling practice and also a definition
of a major distinction between semantic determinatives and semantic
classifiers in Mayan writing.) **WORK IN PROGRESS: PLEASE CONTACT
AUTHOR BEFORE CITING IN A PAPER**
The Primary Standard Sequence: Database
Compilation, Grammatical Analysis, and Primary Documentation. Final
Report to FAMSI (#02047). www.famsi.org/reports/02047/FinalReport02047.pdf.
Friday, January 17, 2003
PSS Database: Version 1.3. This
version of my searchable database file is in PDF format. If you prefer
an ASCII format please email me and I'll email you one. This is the pre-Texas
Meetings 2005 version. Soon I will post the Version 1.4 reflecting new
texts added since the Texas Meetings 2005.
Late Preclassic Inscription Documentation (LAPIDA)
Project. This is the FAMSI report of the inscription documentation
project that I undertook for my dissertation.
Resumen
de estudio epigráfico de placas de jade incisas y discos de pizarra mayas
encontrados en Costa Rica. This is an unpublished paper presented at the IX Simposio Anual
de Arqueología Guatemalteca, at the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología
de Guatemala, in Guatemala City, July of 1995. I added a few
minor revisions in September of 1996 and February of 1997 when I was a grad
student at SUNY-Albany.
A Study of Three Proto-Ch’olan Markers. Based on the
“Pre-Proto-Ch’olan” paper above. In progress.
Reconstruction
of the Proto-Ch’olan Independent Pronouns, Deictic Enclitics, and
Definite Articles. Part of the
“Diachronic Ch’olan-Tzeltalan Morphosyntactic
Reconstruction” Project. In
progress.
The Jade-to-gold Shift in Ancient Costa Rica:
A World Systems Perspective. DOC.
The "Charlie Chaplin" Silhouette
Figural Theme: A Middle American Theme. DOC.
Slideshow
associated with Jade-to-gold paper. PowerPoint.
Slideshow on San Bartolo Murals. Powerpoint.
Slideshow on History of Costa Rican Jade Tradition. Powerpoint.
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Selected Publications
Below are most of my publications so far.
• Kaminaljuyu
Stela 10: Script Classification and Linguistic Affiliation. Ancient
Mesoamerica 16:63-87. 2005.
• The Proto-Ch'olan
Positional Status Marker *-täl and Additional Comments on Classic Mayan
Positional Morphology. Wayeb Notes No. 17. 2005.
• A
Possible Alternative Way of Expressing Month Names in Maya Writing.
Glyph Dwellers Report 19. 2005.
• A New Sign with
Phonetic no Reading? Wayeb Notes No. 15. 2004.
• Discourse Structure and
Coordinate Constructions in Classic Lowland Mayan Texts. In: The
Linguistics of the Maya Script, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp.
339-364. University of Utah Press. 2004.
• The Origin of Mayan Syllabograms and
Orthographic Conventions. Written Language and Literacy,
6(2):193-237. 2003.
• Historical Reconstruction of Mayan Applicative and
Antidative Constructions. International Journal of American
Linguistics. 69(2):186-228. 2003.
• An Epi-Olmec Jade
Pendant Found in Costa Rica.
Mexicon 24(1):14-19. 2002.
• The Origins of Maya Civilization: The Old Shell
Game, Commodity, Treasure, and Kingship. In Ancient Maya Political
Economies, edited by Marilyn Masson and David Freidel, pp. 41-86. New York: Altamira
Press. Coauthored with David Freidel and Kathryn Reese-Taylor.
2002.
• The Syllabic Value of Mayan
T77 as k’i. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing
46:8-45.
2000.
• The Origins of Maya
Writing: The Case for Portable Objects. In U Mut Maya VII, edited
by Tom and Carolyn Jones, pp. 133-164. Arcata: Humboldt
State University. 1997.
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Links
Institutions and Organizations
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA): http://www.ssila.org/
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html
Center for the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA): http://www.utexas.edu/cola/llilas/centers/cilla/links.html
Linguistics Society of America (LSA): http://www.lsadc.org/
Society of American Archaeology (SAA): http://www.saa.org/
American Anthropological Association (AAA): http://www.aaanet.org/
Mesoweb: http://www.mesoweb.com/
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI): http://www.famsi.org/
Wayeb: http://www.wayeb.org/
K'inal Winik Cultural Center: http://www.csuohio.edu/kinalwinik/
Instituto de Lingüística y Educación, Universidad Rafael Landívar: http://www.url.edu.gt/VAcademica/ILE/default.htm
Maya Archaeology: http://www.maya-archaeology.org/
The Maya Meetings at UT-Austin: http://www.utmaya.org/
The Mesoamerica Center at
UT-Austin: http://www.utmesoamerica.org/
Center for Maya
Research/Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing: http://www.precolumbia.com/bearc/CMR/home.html
Center for Ancient American Studies/Ancient America: http://www.precolumbia.com/bearc/CAAS/home.html
Guatemala Scholars Network (GSN): http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/GSN/
Programa
de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias Sobre Mesoamérica y El Sureste
(PROIMMSE):
http://proimmse.unam.mx/
Grants and Funding Sources
National Science Foundation -- Linguistics: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408&org=BCS&from=home
The Wenner-Gren Foundation: http://www.wennergren.org/
FAMSI: http://www.famsi.org/
Departments
and Programs
UNC-CH, Linguistics: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ling/
UNC-CH, Consortium for Latina American and Caribbean Studies at DUKE/UNC: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ilas/front.html
UNC-CH, Anthropology: http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/
SUNY-Albany, Anthropology: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/
KU-Lawrence, Anthropology: http://www.ku.edu/~kuanth/
KU-Lawrence, Linguistics: http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/
Scholars
I Know Well
Cliff Pye
http://raven.cc.ku.edu/~pyersqr/index.shtml
John Hoopes
http://www.ku.edu/~hoopes/
John Justeson
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/justeson.htm
Aaron Broadwell
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell.htm
Robert Carmack
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/carmack.htm
Kathryn Josserand (recently passed away)
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/?josserand
Marilyn Masson
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/masson.htm
Erik Boot’s Excellent
Website http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/
C. Andrew Hofling
http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/hofling/
Søren Wichmann
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~wichmann/
William Ringle: http://www.davidson.edu/academic/anthropology/biringle.htm
Newspapers
La Nación: http://www.nacion.com/
Electronic Journals
Glyph Dwellers: http://nas.ucdavis.edu/NALC/glyphdwellers.html
Wayeb Notes: http://www.wayeb.org/indexnotes.htm
Journal of World Systems Research: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php
Linguistic Discovery: http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/webobjbin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/xmlpage/1/issue
Texas Notes on Pre-Columbian Art and Writing. Technically this was a
print journal or newsletter, but all the issues are now available online: http://www.utexas.edu/research/chaaac/the_texas_notes.html
Resources
Digital Media Archive, Language Acquisition
Research Center at San Diego State University, Yucatec Maya: http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/user/index.php?lang=Yucatec%20Maya
Museo Popol Vuh: http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu.gt/eng/index.htm
Calendar program: http://www.pauahtun.org/tools.html
SIL phonetic fonts: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/
The Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/
MIT Linguistics: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/
The Linguist List: http://www.linguistlist.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
Kaqchikel Mayan at KU-Lawrence: http://www.ku.edu/~mayan/
Centro Maya de Idiomas: http://www.centromaya.org/
Judith Maxwell: http://www.tulane.edu/~maxwell/
William Labov's homepage: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/home.html
Matthew S. Dryer's website: http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/dryer.htm
Brian Stross: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~strossb/index.html
William Croft's website: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/WACHome.html
Brian D. Joseph's website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/
Hans H. Hock's website: http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/hhhock/
Archive of the Indian Languages of Chiapas: http://academic.reed.edu/linguistics/enterENG.htm
Lyle Campbell's website: http://www.linguistics.utah.edu/Faculty/campbell/campbell.html
Sk'op Sotz'leb: The Tzotzil of Zinacantán: http://zapata.org/tzotzil/
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/index.html
Kaufman's (2003) Preliminary Mayan Etymologycal Dictionary.
Linguistics software (transcription) download: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/resources/computing/download/download.htm
Susanna Cumming's web resources for linguistics: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/index.htm
Nim Po't Virtual Retail Museum: http://www.nimpot.com/
Self-Study Languages: http://babel.uoregon.edu/YLC/selfstudy.html
Linguistic Data Consortium: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Judith Aissen: http://people.ucsc.edu/~aissen/
Norbert O. Ross: http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~norbert.o.ross/
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