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PDF pending restorationBrody, Jill – 1987
This linguistic analysis notes that the model clitic in the Mayan language Tojolabal cliticizes 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…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Expectation, Foreign Countries
