The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca

 

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Avtor: Quesada, Juan Diego
Format: artículo
Fecha de Publicación:2000
Opis: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
Institucija:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Jezik:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:null:11056/19241
Online dostop:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19241
Ključna beseda:BORUCA
LENGUAS ABORÍGENES
ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES
GRÁMATICA
GRAMMAR
AMÉRICA CENTRAL