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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts

Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...

Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese

07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar

Drawing on recent work in developmental and comparative psychology, this paper argues that demonstratives function to coordinate the interlocutors' joint focus of attention, which is one of the most basic functions of human communication...

Keywords: demonstratives, joint attention, deixis, pointing, grammaticalization, evolution of grammar

12/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu

The typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu...

Keywords: actionality, animacy, aspect, clause combining, deixis, Mwotlap, negation, number, incorporation, Oceanic, possession, predication, pronoun, referentiality, serial verbs, valency change, vowel harmony

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

From representational to scopal ‘distancing indirect speech or thought’: A cline of subjectification

‘Distancing indirect speech or thought’ (DIST) is defined as a noncanonical form of speech or thought representation which is characterized by the singleness of deictic center across both component clauses: Contrary to direct, indirect, or free indirect speech/thought, no truly separate consciousness (‘sayer/cognizant’) is represented by the current speaker (‘speaker’), even though the grammar of speech or thought representation is used...

Keywords: reported speech, distancing indirect speech/thought, deixis, scope, subjectification, grammaticalization

09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Cognitive schemas and motion verbs: COMING and GOING in Chindali (Eastern Bantu)

This study develops a detailed semantic analysis of a dozen COME and GO verbs in an eastern Bantu language, Chindali...

Keywords: Bantu, Chindali, deixis, lexical semantics, motion verb, verb chaining in discourse

02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Demonstratives in parallel texts: a case study

The aim of this paper is to show the usefulness of parallel texts for typological inves-tigations. In order to analyze the way in which demonstrative systems of the European languages function, two kinds of data have been considered: first, the results of a questionnaire based on situations represented in 48 pictures, which will be necessarily discussed only in a summarized way here...

Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, parallel texts, dyad of conversation

02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

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