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“Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonI investigate the phenomenon whereby first person plurals in Mayan languages are employed in impersonal and generic contexts. This is the opposite pattern documented for some (Indo-)European languages where impersonal pronouns are used to refer to first person plurals. Empirically, this work provides new data from Mayan languages to the understudied phenomenon of first person […]