Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ‘after’ and ‘before’

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-282

  Bohnemeyer, JüRgen ^a  

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Author keywords

aspect; event order; Mayan; phase vers; semantic universah; temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937185953     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.1998.9.3.239     Document Type: Article

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