[Lingtyp] terms for days after tomorrow

[Samira Verhees]

Great, thank you!
I think this is the first data I received from New Guinea :)

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 1:25 PM Christian Döhler <
christian.doehler at posteo.de> wrote:

> Dear Samira,
>
> The languages of the Yam family in Southern New Guinea have
> non-compositional terms for the after tomorrow, which are bi-directional.
> For example *nama* in Komnzo can mean `the day before yesterday' or `the
> day after tomorrow', or *kayé *can be either `yesterday' or `tomorrow'.
> There is a paragraph on these in the Komnzo grammar
> <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/212> on page 97.
>
> Best,
>
> Christian
> Am 19.03.22 um 08:48 schrieb Samira Verhees:
>
> Dear Lingtyp list,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Samira Verhees
>
>
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