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Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics edited by Doris L. Payne and Jaime Peña ISBN 978-1-57473-420-1 library binding v + 203 pages publication date: 2007 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Kevin Ezra Moore Lexical Resources in Wolof and English for Talking of Time in Terms of Space 111-124 (complete pdf) This paper applies conceptual metaphor theory to Wolof, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Senegal and The Gambia, West Africa. The paper examines a subset of the Wolof lexemes that can be used for talking about time in terms of space and motion. Many of the same metaphors that have been proposed for English and other languages also appear in Wolof, sometimes with interesting differences having to do with interactions between metaphor and lexical semantics. Additionally, a Wolof metaphor that does not occur in English is examined. |