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Publication details [#22887]

Brody, Jill. 1987. Particles borrowed from Spanish as discourse markers in Mayan languages. Anthropological Linguistics 29 (4) : 507–521.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse structure | particle

Language as a subject

Mayan | Spanish

Annotation

B. examines the use of Spanish particles, borrowed by Mayan languages, and argues that they match up with native particles to function as discourse markers which structure discourse.