Aymara's time line

[SWEETSER, Eve E.]

Dear All,

I just wanted to say that the Núñez and Sweetser paper does of course discuss the Hill work, among 
much else.  And yes, it deals with the distinction between (for example) the Classical Greek and 
Maori systems and the Aymara one.  For those of you who might like to see the paper rather than 
commenting on the newspaper coverage (!):

(1) if you subscribe to Cognitive Science then you can read it online there, or

(2) I am happy to send a pdf copy to anyone who asks me for it - I don't want to spam the whole 
list, of course.

Cheers and best,
Eve



On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:08:08 -0700
  Elizabeth Traugott <traugott at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Ellen Contini-Morava mentioned Clifford Hill's work. It is:
> 
> Clifford Hill, 1978. Linguistic representation of spatial and temporal
> orientation, BLS 4: 524-538.
> 
> I myself suggested in the same year that while deictic tense is typically
> back (past)-front (future) oriented, relative (sequential) tense is
> typically earlier (front)-later (back) oriented, i.e. they are
> oriented in opposite directions (If winter comes, can Spring be
> far behind?), see:
> 1978. On the expression of spatio-temporal relations in language. In Joseph
> Greenberg, Charles Ferguson and Edith Moravcsik, eds., Universals of Human
> Language, Vol III: 369-402. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press
> and
> 1985. "Conventional" and "dead" metaphors. In Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven, eds.,
> The Ubiquity of Metaphor, 17-56. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
> 
> It would not be too surprising if a relative system were grammaticalized into a deictic one,
> if indeed that is what the Aymara system is. But I don't think that is necessary--as Hill
> showed, there are two ways of orienting oneself: face to face, or in a line.
> 
> Elizabeth Traugott
> 
> 
>