The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca

 

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Autor: Quesada, Juan Diego
Formato: artículo
Data de Publicação:2000
Descrição:SPECIFICITY, as many other concepts of human experience, has various linguistic manifestations across languages, varying from lexical expression, e.g. adjectives, as in the English example in (1), to distinctions which make use of categories existing in the grammatical repertoire of a given language, as in Spanish (2), where the distinction between subjunctive and indicative serves to express a distinction of specificity;2 in other cases, a given morpheme takes on the function of expressing that notion; that is the case of Boruca (3), a Chibchan language of Costa Rica,
País:Repositorio UNA
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Idioma:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:https://repositorio.una.ac.cr:11056/19241
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19241
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:BORUCA
LENGUAS ABORÍGENES
ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES
GRÁMATICA
GRAMMAR
AMÉRICA CENTRAL