The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca
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 langu...
| Autor Principal: | Quesada, Juan Diego |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Universidad Nacional, Costar Rica
2021
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http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19241 |
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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, |
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