A list of my publications and conference presentations is below. To download my full CV, click here. Slides and handouts should be treated as works in progress; please contact me before you cite them.
Dissertation
- 2023. Diachrony of the Perfect Paradigm in Mayan Languages. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Full PDF
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Tandy, James. Under revision. Direct affix borrowing and the proto-Mayan perfect participle.
- Tandy, James. In press. Tracing Eastern Mayan perfect -maχ: Outcomes of direct affix borrowing in the Sacapulas Corridor. In Robin Meyer and Michele Bianconi, eds., The Typology of Contact-Induced Changes in Morphosyntax, special issue of Transactions of the Philological Society. URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12273.
Introduction to edited volume
- 2021. Crowhurst, Megan J., Nora C. England, Patience L. Epps, Sofia G. Pierson, May Helena Plumb, James B. Tandy, Paige Erin Wheeler, Elizabeth Wood, and Anthony C. Woodbury. Translators’ Introduction. In Emiliana Cruz Cruz, ed., Theoretical reflections around the role of fieldwork in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Contributions of Indigenous researchers from southern Mexico (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 23), 5-9. Honolulu: Language Documentation & Conservation. URL: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp23/.
As translator
- 2021. Pérez González, Jaime (Author), James B. Tandy (Translator), and Paige Erin Wheeler (Translator). Ethical principles in linguistic fieldwork methodologies—according to whom? In Emiliana Cruz Cruz, ed., Theoretical reflections around the role of fieldwork in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Contributions of Indigenous researchers from southern Mexico (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 23), 131-152. (Originally published in Spanish as: Pérez González, Jaime. 2020. Los principios éticos de las metodologías en el trabajo de campo lingüístico según quién. In Emiliana Cruz Cruz, ed., Reflexiones teóricas en torno a la función del trabajo de campo en lingüística-antropológica: Contribuciones de investigadores indígenas del sur de México (LD&C Special Publication 22), 125-149.) Honolulu: Language Documentation & Conservation. URL: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp23/.
Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations
- Nov 11, 2023. Irrealis to infinitive in Popti': Paradigmatic motivations for functional change. Presented at the 10th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin. Abstract Slides
- Jan 6, 2023. Challenges to the study of variation in Colonial Poqom (Mayan). Presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (Online). Abstract Slides Video
- Aug 2, 2022. Direct affix borrowing: Evidence from two Mayan perfect suffixes. Presented at The Typology of Contact-Induced Changes in Morphosyntax, workshop at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Slides (lightly edited to fix references)
- Nov 13, 2021. Evaluating Mayan perfect -b'il as a Lowland diffusion. Presented at Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 6, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (Online). Slides Video
- Oct 21, 2021. Poqomam p' as a "stone soup" phonological borrowing. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49, University of Texas at Austin (Online). Slides Video
- Feb 14, 2020. Innovation and Contact in the K’iche’an Mayan Perfect: The case of -maj. Presented at Texas Linguistics Society XIX, University of Texas at Austin. Handout