Behind Us, the Future: The Linguistic Concretization of the Conception of the ‘Time to Come’ in Hittite
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Abstract
In the present work, the linguistic representation of the concept of ‘future’ in the Hittite language will be investigated, in order to confirm what various ethno-linguistic and cognitive studies have already found, in other linguistic sectors, namely that representation of time – conceptualized as space – emerges linguistically through a series of spatial metaphors which, depending on the language and culture of reference, may involve different points of views, not necessarily coinciding with the deictic Ego
Keywords
- Hittite Language
- Etymology
- Cognitive Semantics
- Linguistic Contact
