Re: spatial-workout ( premature )

thanks, looks good.
to picturize, to visualise terms is a very nice & logical addiotional
feature, and i plan to integrate pics not for spatial terms only,
in my conlang-lexicon.

why not connect the spatial-relations to the temporal ones ?
because what surprises me is: the inconsistence with which we
think of "temporal positional relations" and "spatial positional
relations"
spatially, we decribe positions relative to a current center which is
"here" and "there"
temporally we describe positions always as time-arrow from the
utter past toward the utter future and NOT around the current center,
which is "now" and "then".

orthodox:
back <<---  here  --->> front     (front and back is far away)
past --->>  now   --->> future    (??)

my suggestion:
back <<<<-  here  ->>>> front     (front and back is far away)
past <<<<-  now   ->>>> future    (future and past is far away)

both could be made more logically consistent,
when we image that we look into future,
and derive it with the compounds:
"temporal-front" & "temporal-rear"
"spatial-front" & "spatial-rear"
and get rid of the time-arrow.

hmm..
regards,
c.s.



>> well i have tried to work abit on spatial terms , but put this
>> on hold, because its really not an easy task to analyse them and create
>> a logical analysis/categorization them.
>> however the first step is surely to collect all spatial terms (relation or not)
>> terms. and *then* look at them and try to get a grisp how they relate,
>> and how their semantics could be derived from each other.
>>
RR> <snip>
>>
>> if someone already analysed this topic i would be happy to hear about it.
>> regards,
>> c.s.
>>
RR> I had great fun coming up with a set of motive, spatial and temporal
RR> prepositions for Gevey. If my work can be of any help to your work,
RR> then feel free to check out the Gevey pronoun webpage at

RR>    http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/prep.html

RR> I've included little pictures on the webpage to try and demonstrate
RR> what each preposition represents. Feedback is always welcome.

RR> Rik

RR> --
RR>    The Gevey language reference
RR>    http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/index.html


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