Book contents
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- New Departures in Anthropology
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Intensity
- Part I Grounds
- Part II Tensors
- Part III Thresholds
- Nine Temporality and Replacement
- Ten Temporal Thresholds
- Eleven Modality and Worlding
- Twelve Modal Thresholds
- Conclusion: The Ecological Self
- References
- Index
Ten - Temporal Thresholds
from Part III - Thresholds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- New Departures in Anthropology
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Intensity
- Part I Grounds
- Part II Tensors
- Part III Thresholds
- Nine Temporality and Replacement
- Ten Temporal Thresholds
- Eleven Modality and Worlding
- Twelve Modal Thresholds
- Conclusion: The Ecological Self
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 is about four aspectual adverbs in Q’eqchi’-Maya, which may be loosely glossed as ‘already’ (ak), ‘not yet’ (maaji’), ‘still’ (toj), and ‘no longer’ (ink’a’ chik). It shows the presupposition and assertion structure of these forms in unmarked usage (as sentential operators acting on imperfective predicates), and it argues that they constitute a dual group in the tradition of Loebner (1989) who worked on similar operators in German. This chapter shows the wide range of other functions such forms serve in more marked usage and the ways they may co-occur with each other in the same clause (and thereby ‘double’), leading to constructions like ‘still no longer’ and ‘already not yet’. It offers a semantics that accounts for the multiple functions of all such constructions, highlighting the ways these forms are similar to, and different from, their German and Spanish counterparts.
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- The Anthropology of IntensityLanguage, Culture, and Environment, pp. 271 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022