The Verbs 'Come' and Their Deictic Load in Poqomchi' (Mayan) Folk Tales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4826089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Igor Vinogradov (0000-0003-4463-6468, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-431 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719840 |
| OpenAlex | W4283750550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper discusses a specific use of two movement verbs meaning ‘come’ in folk tales in the Poqomchi’ (Mayan) language. It is argued that these verbs establish and maintain the deictic structure of the text-internal narrative world. The verb chalik ‘come (here)’ indicates the character that is located in the deictic center of an episode, while the verb ponik ‘come (there)’ introduces temporal expressions, which set the time reference. When performing these specific discursive functions, both verbs lose their lexical meaning and do not contribute to the narrative content itself, thus differing from other deictic center devices that are available to Poqomchi’ speakers. This peculiarity of narrative discourse in Poqomchi’ is a result of the consistent development of the general tendency to mark episode boundaries by means of movement verbs, which has been noted for several Mayan languages
Character (mathematics · Deixis · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Modal verb · Narrative · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |