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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.27

Formalizing a Unique Space-Time Grammatical Mapping in a North American Indigenous Language Family (Short Paper)

Authors: Zahur Ashrafuzzaman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 315, 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)

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The Na-Dene language family uses a system of verbal prefixes to indicate spatial orientation. This same system is generalized to express aspectual (temporal) meaning. I formalize the semantics of these prefixes as they relate to both time and space, arguing that this line of inquiry is a useful basis for interdiscplinary cognitive science focusing on the intersection of spatial and linguistic cognition.

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Zahur Ashrafuzzaman. Formalizing a Unique Space-Time Grammatical Mapping in a North American Indigenous Language Family (Short Paper). In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 27:1-27:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{ashrafuzzaman:LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.27,
  author =	{Ashrafuzzaman, Zahur},
  title =	{{Formalizing a Unique Space-Time Grammatical Mapping in a North American Indigenous Language Family}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-330-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{315},
  editor =	{Adams, Benjamin and Griffin, Amy L. and Scheider, Simon and McKenzie, Grant},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208424},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: linguistics, syntax, semantics, cognitive science, spatial cognition, Indigenous language, time, temporal, mapping}
}

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