Predominant psychological theories of number acquisition posit that children acquire natural
number concepts as they acquire the successor principle, or the knowledge that every …

This article reports a field study of event-based time concepts, their linguistic expression and
their use in time reckoning practices in three indigenous cultures and languages of Brazil …

This article reports a field study of event-based time concepts, their linguistic expression and
their use in time reckoning practices in three indigenous cultures and languages of Brazil …

Niche construction theory is a relatively new approach in evolutionary biology (though with
important but neglected precursors). It is regarded by many evolutionary biologists as a key …

This thesis reports a comprehensive investigation and discussion of event-based concepts
of time in three indigenous cultures and languages of Brazil: Huni Kuĩ, Awetý and Kamaiurá …

Our aim in this chapter is to critically examine the sciences of language as practices/theories
in a complex of inter-related social, cultural, political and ideological ecologies. The specific …

In this paper we analyse verbal reduplication in the Amondawa language, focusing on the
aspectual function. We argue that verbal reduplication may be linked to Amondawa's cultural …

This paper investigates how concepts of time in the YiJing (here 易经 YiJing refers to the
经文 Jing text in the ancient Chinese work The Book of Changes) are organized and …

Our aim in this chapter is to critically examine the sciences of language as practices/theories
in a complex of inter-related social, cultural, political and ideological ecologies. The specific …