Publications
Publication details [#1877]
Burgess, Don. 1979. Verbal suffixes of prominence in Western Tarahumara narrative discourse. In Jones, Linda Kay, ed. Discourse studies in Mesoamerican languages. Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 171–188.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
An analysis of source and verity verbal suffixes in relation to various degrees of prominence in discourse (source indicating whether the narrative is first or secondhand knowledge, verity indicating the speaker's evaluation of the reliability of the discourse; but these meanings can change in context).