This study first provides a general survey of formal and semantic properties of elements expressing location, direction, means, instrument, manner, accompaniment, benefactee and association, etc. realized in Cora, an Uto-Aztecan language, as free postpositional forms or, less prototypically, as… read more
In this paper I discuss several salient asymmetries and explore their roles in motivating usages of Cora spatial language to locate events, situations, conditions, relations, people and things. The first of these asymmetries is that of the speaker’s role as observer: in framing his… read more