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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="font-family: courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Dear Samira,</span></span><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Chinese
has the terms for seven consecutive days:</span></div>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">大前天</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif">daqiantian. lit. big
ahead day, <span> </span><i>the day before the day
before yesterday</i></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">前天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">qiantian. Lit.
ahead day. <span> </span><span> </span><i>the day before yesterday, </i></span></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">昨天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">zuotian. Lit. past
day.<span> </span><span> </span><i>yesterday</i></span></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">今天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">jintian. Lit.
present day.<span> </span><i>today</i></span></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">明天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">mingtian. Lit. bright
day.<span> </span><i>tomorrow</i></span></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">后天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">houtian. Lit.
behind day.<span> </span><i>the day after tomorrow</i></span></span></p>
<p class="ydpda6937c4MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:宋体;mso-ascii-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-hansi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman">大后天</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span lang="EN-US">dahoutian. Lit. big
behind day.<i><span> </span>the day after the day after
tomorrow</i></span></span></p>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
magic number, seven (7</span><span style="font-family: 宋体;">±</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2)
!</span></div></div><div style="font-family: courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Best </font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Bingfu Lu</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Beijing Language and Culture University</font></div><br></div><div style="font-family: courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></div>
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On Saturday, March 19, 2022, 12:49:15 AM PDT, Samira Verhees <jh.verhees@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp7f544328yiv1888850690"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Lingtyp list,</div><div><br></div><div>A student of mine is collecting data on lexemes denoting consecutive days after tomorrow in East Caucasian (and neighboring) languages, and we were wondering if anyone here knows of any typological research that discusses the encoding of this concept (or perhaps more broadly systems of naming days and their diachronic development), or any language-specific work that explores such terms in some detail.</div><div><br></div><div>In some East Caucasian languages, there are unique, non-compositional terms for the day after tomorrow, the day after the day after tomorrow, for up to 6 days after tomorrow. We have been able to find some languages that also have a non-compositional term for the day after the day after tomorrow, for example, but we can't seem to find anything more elaborate than examples on internet fora or short sentences in reference grammars.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Samira Verhees<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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