spatial/locational paradigms

[Jess Tauber]

Going to the library tomorrow anyway, will try to pick up the copy there of
Tuscarora Roots.... so I can better see what you're talking about. Maybe get
some materials on other languages while I'm at it. Would be very interesting
if these affixes were some sort of "intimacy" system. Aspect commonly has
spatial antecedents, so the directionality of grammaticalization with regard
to nouns versus verbs would be interesting. Is anybody these days doing a
full scale grammatical reconstruction for the family?

Jess