[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 90, Issue 35

Fri Mar 25 16:18:34 UTC 2022

Hi Samira,
In Yaw [itr], a Left May language of Papua New Guinea, there is a seemingly
limitless supply of terms for days before/after tomorrow. This is due to
the morphology in the language that allows any numeral (except 'one') to be
derived as such, starting with 2 days ago/2 days out: eg nineisc '4',
ninena '4 days ago', nineineina '4 days out', naninina '10 days out'
(nanisc '10').

Cheers
Joseph

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> From: Christian Döhler <christian.doehler at posteo.de>
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> 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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> From: Samira Verhees <jh.verhees at gmail.com>
> To: Christian Döhler <christian.doehler at posteo.de>
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> Great, thank you!
> I think this is the first data I received from New Guinea :)
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> 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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