Eugene H. Casad

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eugene H. Casad is involved.

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From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions

Eugene H. Casad

Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.

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Casad, Eugene H. 2014 Obliques: Some that are, and some that aren’t Non-Nuclear Cases, Delbecque, Nicole, Karen Lahousse and Willy Van Langendonck (eds.), pp. 21–66 | Article

This study first provides a general survey of formal and semantic properties of elements expressing location, direction, means, instrument, manner, accompaniment, benefactee and association, etc. realized in Cora, an Uto-Aztecan language, as free postpositional forms or, less prototypically, as… read more

Casad, Eugene H. 2008 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language Asymmetric Events, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 25–52 | Article

In this paper I discuss several salient asymmetries and explore their roles in motivating usages of Cora spatial language to locate events, situations, conditions, relations, people and things. The first of these asymmetries is that of the speaker’s role as observer: in framing his… read more

Casad, Eugene H. 2002 8. Objects, verbs and categories in the Cora lexicon The Nominative & Accusative and their counterparts, Davidse, Kristin and Béatrice Lamiroy (eds.), pp. 227–264 | Chapter

Casad, Eugene H. 2001 Where Do the Senses of Cora Vaa- Come From? Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. 83–114 | Article

Casad, Eugene H. 1998 Lots of ways to GIVE in Cora The Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 135–174 | Article

Casad, Eugene H. 1997 Language assesment tools: Uses and limitations Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 253–274 | Article

Casad, Eugene H. 1988 Conventionalization of cora locationals Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida (ed.), pp. 345–378 | Article

Casad, Eugene H. 1986 Review of Suárez (1983): The Mesoamerican Indian Languages Studies in Language 10:2, pp. 475–484 | Review