Silja-Maija Spets
List of John Benjamins publications in which Silja-Maija Spets is involved.
Article
2025 Epistemic perspective of temporal deictics: A study on Mari retrospectivizing particles Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:2, pp. 179–216 | Article
Deictic items encoding coordinative dimensions of space and time often grammaticalize into markers of epistemic categories. This study examines what kind of epistemic system is formed by the tense-deictic retrospectivizing particles əʎe/əʎə and ulmaʃ/ələn in the Mari languages. Based on a corpus… read more
