Temporal frames of reference and the locative case marking of the Finnish adposition ete- ‘in front of / ahead’

Huumo, Tuomas

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.06.008

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“…See Moore (2014a, chapter 11) for discussion. It is interesting that the earlier= in-front/ later= behind pattern in deictically neutral or non-deictic expression types is found in many typologically different languages in different families in different parts of the world, from Yucatec Maya (Bohnemeyer, 1998, p. 257; Le Guen & Pool Balam, 2012, p. 7 14 ) to Aymara (Núñez & Sweetser, 2006) to Finnish (Huumo, 2015) to Mandarin Chinese (Yu, 2012). The widespread occurrence of the pattern suggests that it is motivated by human experience.…”

Section: In-front and Behind In Sequence Is Relative Position On A Pathmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[Also bad on the interpretation that you stir fry them after you cut them. ] The two-Mover constraint has been shown to hold in English (Moore, 2014b) and Finnish (Huumo, 2015). There is also reason to believe that the constraint holds in Wolof and Japanese.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a recent paper (on which the current discussion is based), Tuomas Huumo (2015) has shown that Finnish conforms to the two-Mover constraint. Because of its case-marking system, Finnish offers excellent opportunities to track the status of participants in motion scenarios.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sentence (55b) shows that, in sequence is relative position on a path, the adposition is inflected for case in the same way as it is in the motion example – with the suffix - llä . Thus the two metaphorical Movers are explicitly coded as both moving in the same direction. Finnish Ambulanssi-n ede- llä ajo-i poliisiauto. ambulance- gen front- ade drive- pst.3sg police.car ‘A police car was driving in front/ahead of the ambulance.’ (Huumo, 2015, p. 50) [Source frame for sequence is position . The police car is the Figure and the ambulance is the Ground.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time

Moore

2016

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This paper studies the principles according to which spatial and motion concepts metaphorically structure temporal concepts in some languages. There are two types of space–motion metaphor of time, distinguished by whether or not the metaphor is structured by a person’s perspective. “Christmas is approaching” and “We are approaching Christmas” are perspectival. “New Year’s follows Christmas” is not. This contrast in deixis and frame of reference is linguistically relevant whether the contrast has to do with imagination or external reality. Study of experiential motivations and analysis into primary metaphors helps reveal the particular ways spatial and motion concepts function in each type of metaphor. One focus is accounting for the contrasting temporal meanings that words for in-front and behind can have. For example, “Ahead of us” is later than Now, while “ahead of Christmas” is earlier than Christmas. We find that the temporal ‘directions’ expressed in the contrasting frames of reference are not opposites. Rather, they are motivated by different kinds of temporal experience. This project investigates the fundamental spatial relations that structure temporal concepts; for example co-location vs. separation. But since motion involves time, purely spatial structure is limited. Conceptual blending analysis reveals that the source and target frames of the perspectival metaphors share an aspectual – i.e., temporal – generic structure. Thus a dichotomy between ‘space’ and ‘time’ is of limited utility in describing space–motion metaphors of time. Instead, the analysis has to deal with the specific spatial and temporal concepts that function in each metaphor.

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Section: In-front and Behind In Sequence Is Relative Position On A Pathmentioning

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Section: The Two-mover Hypothesismentioning

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Section: The Two-mover Hypothesismentioning

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Section: The Two-mover Hypothesismentioning

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Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time

Moore

2016

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“…From the point of view of communicative-functional linguistics works devoted to the metaphorical use of verbs of motion are of special significance. A metaphor is regarded as a meaning-creating means of word combinations and a means of accumulating linguistic culture (Huumo, 2015;Pavlenko et al, 2015;Özçalişkan et al, 2005). Different languages differ from each other by means of expression in different situations rather than by the system of meanings.…”

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The word-formation category "displacement causation": mutational and modification semantics of German, Russian and Tatar verbs

Akhmetova¹,

Shaimardanova²,

Zorina³

et al. 2019

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The aim of the study is to determine the semantic, structural and cognitive specificity of the derivational embodiment of the semantics of "displacement" in the differencestructured languages. 16 subcategories of the derivational category "displacement causation", 102 derivational types are described in the article taking into account differential semi forming formants. It was determined that the maximum number of word-formative types had been found in German-49 word-formative types (48%), and the minimum number of word-formative types has been stated in the Tatar language-25 word-formative types (24,5 %). In the Russian language there were 28 word-formative types (27,5%). The German language consciousness is characterized by a precise description of the movement of an object, taking into account both the directional and temporal, technical and other characteristics of the action. It is also considered to be essential to explicit at the word-formation level the relation of the subject to the reality and the perception of oneself as part of space, that is the ability to express unique meanings which in other languages require additional lexical specification or exist at the connotative level. Russian and Tatar derived verbs are characterized by a high nominative potential and require a greater deal of inference. The empirical material presented in this article indicates that in the word-formation category "causation of movement" two main types of word-formation values in derivative verbs are implemented: modification, determined by an original verb of an additional characteristics, and a mutation, which is accompanied by a change in the categorial meaning of the derivative verb, its desemantization. There is a need to form a complete picture of the structural and semantic system of the Russian, German, and Tatar languages in general and the verb system in particular. Thus, this paper gives an opportunity to realize the peculiarities of linguistic consciousness of peoples, reconstruction of the linguistic picture of the world, and the development of intercultural competence of contemporary people.

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Will it really happen? Disambiguating of the hypothetical and real “Next Wednesday's meeting” question in Mandarin speakers

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Lingua

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Temporal frames of reference and the locative case marking of the Finnish adposition ete- ‘in front of / ahead’

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time

Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time

The word-formation category "displacement causation": mutational and modification semantics of German, Russian and Tatar verbs

Will it really happen? Disambiguating of the hypothetical and real “Next Wednesday's meeting” question in Mandarin speakers

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