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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The grammar of time reference in <span class=SpellE>Yukatek</span> Maya<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><span
class=SpellE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Juergen</span></font></span> <span
class=SpellE>Bohnemeyer</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>MPI for Psycholinguistics, </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><span
class=SpellE>Nijmegen</span></st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This study provides an in-depth analysis of the <span
class=SpellE>morphosyntax</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>semantics</span></font></span>, and pragmatics of the major grammatical constructions<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>involved</span></font></span> in time reference in <span
class=SpellE>Yukatek</span> Maya, a native Mesoamerican<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>language</span></font></span> spoken on the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>peninsula</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName><span
class=SpellE>Yucatán</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The description traces temporal properties in clause structure,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>lexical</span></font></span> predicate classes, verb inflection and derivation, adverbial<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>modification</span></font></span>, and clause and sentence combination, and thus covers a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>substantial</span></font></span> part of the core grammar of the language. It gives one of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the</span></font></span> most comprehensive and detailed accounts of the expression of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>temporality</span></font></span> in any Non-Indo-European language to date. <span
class=SpellE>Yukatek</span> emerges<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span class=GramE><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>as</span></font></span> a language in which relations of event order are largely left<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>unexpressed</span></font></span>. There are no absolute or relative tenses, and no temporal<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>connectives</span></font></span> equivalent to after, before, etc. Communication about<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>event</span></font></span> order relies heavily on the coding of aspectual and modal<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>information</span></font></span>, enriched by pragmatic inferences from context and world<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>knowledge</span></font></span>. Further features of interest to <span
class=SpellE>typologists</span> and time<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>semanticists</span></font></span> include 'phase' verbs (translating 'begin', 'end', etc.)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>with</span></font></span> a semantics markedly distinct from those of <span
class=SpellE>phasal</span> operators in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span class=GramE><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>better</span></font></span> studied languages; lack of any formal reflexes of telicity;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>temporal</span></font></span> connectives with aspectual meanings; and <span
class=SpellE>grammaticalized</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span class=GramE><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>distinctions</span></font></span> of 'degrees of remoteness' that are not combined with<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><span
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