The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca

 

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Συγγραφέας: Quesada, Juan Diego
Μορφή: artículo
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2000
Περιγραφή: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,
Χώρα:Repositorio UNA
Ίδρυμα:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Γλώσσα:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:null:11056/19241
Διαθέσιμο Online:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19241
Λέξη-Κλειδί :BORUCA
LENGUAS ABORÍGENES
ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES
GRÁMATICA
GRAMMAR
AMÉRICA CENTRAL