Danny Law
Associate Professor — Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Contact
- E-mail: dannylaw@austin.utexas.edu
- Office: RLP 4.432
- Campus Mail Code: B5100
Interests
Historical Linguistics, Language Contact, Mayan Languages, Writing Systems
Courses
LIN 350 • Intro To Maya Hieroglyphics-Wb
39135 • Fall 2020
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
GC
LIN 382 • Historical Linguistics
39810 • Spring 2020
Meets F 12:00PM-3:00PM RLP 4.716
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
39820 • Spring 2020
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM RLP 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
40080 • Spring 2019
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM SZB 380
LIN 350 • Linguistics Of Writing
40270 • Fall 2018
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM JES A305A
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
40345 • Fall 2018
Meets W 1:00PM-4:00PM RLP 4.716
LIN 393 • Iconicity In Language
40620 • Spring 2018
Meets F 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
40845 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CLA 0.104
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
40935 • Fall 2017
Meets F 2:00PM-5:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 393 • Writing Systems
41075 • Spring 2017
Meets W 10:00AM-1:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
40785 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 0.128
LIN 389D • Rsch Docum/Descript Ling
40885 • Fall 2016
Meets F 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
40155 • Spring 2016
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 306
LIN 382 • Historical Linguistics
40255 • Spring 2016
Meets MW 12:00PM-1:30PM CLA 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
40050 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 306
LIN 393 • Language Contact
40165 • Spring 2015
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM CLA 4.716
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
41065 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CLA 1.108
LIN 393 • Iconicity In Speech Sign & Txt
41210 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CLA 0.108
LIN 350 • Linguistics Of Writing Systems
41452 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM WEL 3.266
Wr
LIN 382 • Historical Linguistics
41565 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM CLA 0.104
LIN 345 • Lang Change And Lang Variation
41302 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 1.108
ANT 302 • Cultural Anthropology
31185-31200 • Spring 2011
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:00PM GSB 2.126
CD
SB
ANT 307 • Culture & Communication-Honors
29750 • Spring 2009
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 3.116
SB
Publications
In Press. Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya Lowlands. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2013 Inherited similarity and contact-induced change. Journal of Language Contact.
2013 (with Stephen Houston, David Stuart, Nicholas Carter and Marc Zender) Reading In context: the interpretation of personal reference in Ancient Maya hieroglyphic texts. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23(2), 23-47.
2013 Mayan Historical Linguistics in a New Age. Language and Linguistics Compass 7(3), 141-156.
2012 Appropriating Sacred Speech: Aesthetics and Authority in Colonial Ch’olti’. In Kerry Hull and Michael D. Carrasco (eds.) Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial and Classic Maya Literature. Boulder, CO: The University Press of Colorado.
2010 (with John Robertson and Robbie Haertel). Colonial Ch’olti’: The 17th Century Morán Manuscript. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
2009 Pronominal Borrowing among the Maya. Diachronica 26(2). 214-252.
2009 (with John Robertson, Stephen Houston and Robbie Haertel) Most Maya Glyphs are Written in Ch’olti’an. In The Ch’orti’ Region Past and Present, Brent Metz, Cameron McNeill and Kerry Hull (eds.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 29-42.
2009 (with John Robertson) From Valency to Aspect in the Ch’olan-Tzeltalan Family of Mayan. International Journal of American Linguistics 75(3), 293-316.
2007 Poetic Style in Colonial Ch’olti’ Mayan. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 23(2). 142-168.
2006 (with John Robertson, and Stephen Houston) Split Ergativity in the History of the Ch’olan Branch of the Mayan Language Family. International Journal of American Linguistics 72(4). 415-450.