Big thank you to John Quijada for coming to present today!

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• John Quijada’s Presentation on Conceptual Metaphor
• Class Slides

Links

• Ithkuil Home Page
• Skerre Home Page

Assignments

Reading

• AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 139-148 (if you didn’t read it yesterday)

Practice

• Try to apply what you’ve learned about metaphor to grammar or the lexicon. Do one of the following:
  1. Come up with a new metaphor, and give an example of how it might work in some language.
  2. Come up with a novel metaphorical extension to produce a new lexeme from an old one (noun or verb or adjective; doesn’t matter).
  3. Come up with a novel metaphorical extension to produce a new bit of grammar (noun case, verb aspect, comparative form, etc.).

  Note: For each of these options, use English basically as a glossing tool for some hypothetical conlang. So, for example, if you had a metaphor like TIME IS A BASKETBALL GAME, you could say that the word for “overtime” could be used for the afterlife. No need to come up with a form in your conlang; this is just a theoretical exercise.

Mastery

• MA 5: Metaphor and Morphology

Backburner

• Keep looking at MA 6!