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Publication details [#44084]

Kockelman, Paul. 2006. Psychological depth is the internalization of dialogical breadth: Modal clitics and mental states in Q’eqchi’-Maya. Language & Communication 26 (1) : 55–116.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

clitic | mental state | modality | pragmatics | semantics2

Language as a subject

Mayan, Kekchi

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper deals with semantics and pragmatics of modal clitics and with mental states in Q’eqchi’-Maya, reinterpreting logical and psychological suppositions in terms of social and semiotic practices.