Particles in Tojolabal Mayan Discourse

Modal clitic in Tojolabal Mayan cliticize to the first element of the clause. Evidentiality particles indicate the speaker's commitment to the truth of the statement, and temporal/aspectual particles indicate expectability, precedence and durativeness. They function not only to place the speake...

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Main Author: Brody, Jill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1987-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/508