Jan Terj

A description of Chiapas Zoque, the language of the descendents of Mexico's oldest known civilization and whose inscriptions are the oldest known linguistic documents in Mesoamerica. This record of a vibrant but critically endangered language will be an important resource for linguists of all theoretical persuasions.

Jan Terje Faarlund is Professor of Linguistics and coordinator of research at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo. Before this he was Professor of Linguistics and Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago, where he remains a research associate. His research interests and publications are mainly in the fields of Scandinavian languages, historical syntax, syntactic theory, language and evolution, and Meso-American languages. His books include Syntactic Change. Towards a Theory of Historical Syntax. Berlin (De Gruyter Mouton 1990) and The Syntax of Old Norse (OUP, 2004).