Invisible time lines in the fabric of events: Temporal coherence in yucatec narratives

Jürgen Bohnemeyer

doi:10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.139

Invisible time lines in the fabric of events: Temporal coherence in yucatec narratives

Jürgen Bohnemeyer

Linguistics

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This article examines how narratives are structured in a language in which event order is largely not coded. Yucatec Maya lacks both tense inflections and temporal connectives corresponding to English after and before. It is shown that the coding of events in Yucatec narratives is subject to a strict iconicity constraint within paragraph boundaries. Aspectual viewpoint shifting is used to reconcile iconicity preservation with the requirements of a more flexible narrative structure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-162
Number of pages	24
Journal	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.139
State	Published - Dec 2003

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