Publications
Publication details [#61844]
Sullivan, Karen and Linh Thuy Bui. 2016. With the future coming up behind them: Evidence that Time approaches from behind in Vietnamese. Cognitive Linguistics 27 (2) : 205–234.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
No other language than Vietnamese uses a conceptual Time model where the future can move from behind a person to proceed ahead into the past. The model is not imperiled, offers novel research potential, and mainly resembles the Aymara spatial construals of future time as behind and past time in front, yet without moving chance.