Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya
The paper accounts for the grammaticalization of uúch, (‘previously’, ‘long ago’) from a one-place predicate in Yukatek Maya meaning ‘to happen’, to a cognate adverbial in Lakandon Maya denoting ‘knowledge asymmetry’; a change from subjective ‘time’ to intersubjective ‘knowledge’. The paper proposes...
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| description | The paper accounts for the grammaticalization of uúch, (‘previously’, ‘long ago’) from a one-place predicate in Yukatek Maya meaning ‘to happen’, to a cognate adverbial in Lakandon Maya denoting ‘knowledge asymmetry’; a change from subjective ‘time’ to intersubjective ‘knowledge’. The paper proposes an analysis of uúch and the contrasting kuúch/ka’ch as operators of second-order stance, using a Jakobsonian model for analyzing verbal categories forwarded by Paul Kockelman (2004) to operationalize the notion of stance, as visible in Q’eqchi’ modals. Intersubjectification as a process of language change aligns with Kockelman’s original suggestion that first-order stances may be embedded to produce second-order stances, i.e. “stance about stance”. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b00d6a0f508c421d9d9deb1d36ecacb42025-02-05T15:54:06ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422017-12-0110.4000/jsa.15114Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon MayaHenrik BergqvistThe paper accounts for the grammaticalization of uúch, (‘previously’, ‘long ago’) from a one-place predicate in Yukatek Maya meaning ‘to happen’, to a cognate adverbial in Lakandon Maya denoting ‘knowledge asymmetry’; a change from subjective ‘time’ to intersubjective ‘knowledge’. The paper proposes an analysis of uúch and the contrasting kuúch/ka’ch as operators of second-order stance, using a Jakobsonian model for analyzing verbal categories forwarded by Paul Kockelman (2004) to operationalize the notion of stance, as visible in Q’eqchi’ modals. Intersubjectification as a process of language change aligns with Kockelman’s original suggestion that first-order stances may be embedded to produce second-order stances, i.e. “stance about stance”.https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15114Lakandon Mayagrammaticalizationintersubjectivityshiftersevent-typecommitment |
| spellingShingle | Henrik Bergqvist Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya Journal de la Société des Américanistes Lakandon Maya grammaticalization intersubjectivity shifters event-type commitment |
| title | Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya |
| title_full | Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya |
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| title_short | Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya |
| title_sort | time and commitment the grammaticalization of uuch in lakandon maya |
| topic | Lakandon Maya grammaticalization intersubjectivity shifters event-type commitment |
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