From: "Doug Dee" <AmateurLinguist@...>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns
> In a message dated 1/19/2004 2:59:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> herodote92@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> >By the way, I wonder if any natlang has markers for left / right
distinction.
>
> In _Explaining Language Universals_, John A. Hawkins says "Speakers
regularly
> have occasion to refer deitically to objects on their left as opposed to
> their right side, and vice versa. Yet deitic systems across languages are
not
> organized on this basis."
>
> Now that I think of it, that is perhaps surprising. Many deitic systems
have
> a near/far distinction, and left/right would not seem any less useful at
> first glance.
>
> Doug
>
So you might be interested in
http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=516.
Carsten Becker
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