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Publication details [#65851]
Huumo, Tuomas. 2019. Why Monday is not in front of Tuesday: On the uses of English and Finnish front adpositions in sequence metaphors of time. Linguistics 57 (3) : 607–652.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper assays English and Finnish front adpositions generally employed in sequence metaphors of time.Together, the two languages show how a metaphorical motion scenario in a sequence metaphor is grammatically coded as a solid, unvarying array, where both participants are continually moving in the same direction.