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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Main Author: Henrik Bergqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2017-12-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15114
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