Whorf visuals

[Jim Wilce]

There are some diagrams in Whorf's collected writings (edited by Carroll)
on the very subject of tense-aspect in SAE and Hopi.  See Carroll p. 215.
Compare p. 243, illustrating English and Nootka representations of the
(English) sentence, "He invites people to a feast."

Carroll, John B., ed.
	1956	Language, Thought, and Reality:  Selected Writings of
Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

It would also be helpful as well to use a diagram to illustrate
Silverstein's (1994 [1976]) take on what Whorf was trying to do, viz.,
describe (without the semiotic metalanguage it requires) "how pure
referential (semantic) categories and duplex (referential-indexical) ones
combine different from language to language to accomplish ultimately
isofunctional referential speech events," aspect being purely
[symbolic-]referential, tense being duplex.  (Silverstein 1976 (1994): 197.

Silverstein, Michael
	1994	Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description.
In Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings. B.G. Blount, ed. Pp.
187-221. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.
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