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Publication details [#25974]
Hanks, William F. 1990. Referential practice: language and lived space among the Maya. University of Chicago Press. xxvi+580 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This volume develops a theory of "referential practice" to account for the use of deictics, which provides a common ground for examining the complexities of deictic systems in any language. It then elucidates "referential practice" in Yucatec Mayan.
