The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca

dc.contributor.author	Quesada, Juan Diego
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-28T20:42:55Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-28T20:42:55Z
dc.date.issued	2000
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11056/19241
dc.description.abstract	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,	es_ES
dc.language.iso	eng	es_ES
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional, Costar Rica	es_ES
dc.rights	Acceso abierto	es_ES
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.source	In International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 2000, 66 (3): 549-562.	es_ES
dc.subject	BORUCA	es_ES
dc.subject	LENGUAS ABORÍGENES	es_ES
dc.subject	ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES	es_ES
dc.subject	GRÁMATICA	es_ES
dc.subject	GRAMMAR	es_ES
dc.subject	AMÉRICA CENTRAL	es_ES
dc.title	The grammaticalization of specificity (and beyond) in boruca	es_ES
dc.type	http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501	es_ES
dc.description.procedence	Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje	es_ES

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