Description
Each entry contains examples of Ch'orti' sentences along with their translations. Each term is defined grammatically and linked to a grammatical index. Variations due to age and region are noted. Additionally, extensive cultural and linguistic annotations accompany many entries, providing detailed looks into Ch'orti' daily life, mythology, flora and fauna, healing, ritual, and food. Hull worked closely with native speakers, including traditional ritual specialists, and presents that work here in a way that is easily accessible to scholars and laypersons alike.
About the Author
Kerry Hull is currently a professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University, USA. He is author of An Abbreviated Dictionary of Ch'orti' Mayan, and coeditor of Ch'orti' Maya Area: Past and Present and of Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature.
Reviews
"Professor Hull's dictionary is the product of one who is not only a competent linguist, but one who is a fluent speaker of the Ch'orti' language. More importantly, he is meticulously careful with the data." -John S. Robertson, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Brigham Young University
"Thorough, systematic, well researched, and easy to use. This dictionary will be the standard used by me and anyone else interested in the Ch'orti' language."-Brent Metz, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas
Book Information
ISBN 9781607814894
Author Kerry Hull
Format Hardback
Page Count 540
Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.
Publisher University of Utah Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 1730g