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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear friends and colleagues,</div>
<div>I am working on a paper for which I would like to / need to give a survey of serious cross-linguistic studies that test some of the suggested conceptual metaphors. What interests me is systematicity in testing and/or counter-evidence against the allegedly
universal connections. Some of the things that spring to my mind are Martin Haspelmath’s 1997 book “From space to time”, a series of studies on the connection between perception and cognition (primarily, Evans / Wilkins and Vanhove contesting Sweetser’s generalizations
on “Seeing as understanding"), and <span style="font-size: 15px;">Stolz/Stroh/Urdze</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px;"> </span>on “Instruments as companions”. </div>
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<div>I would be extremely grateful for any other directions / studies along similar lines. </div>
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<div>Warmest regards,</div>
<div>Maria / Masha Koptjevskaja Tamm</div>
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<div>Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm</div>
<div>Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University</div>
<div>106 91 Stockholm Sweden</div>
<div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se">tamm@ling.su.se</a></div>
<div>Tel.: +46 8 16 26 20 (office), +46 8 26 90 91</div>
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