Universal 1173: BACK > FRONT > UP, IN > DOWN
- Original
- BACK > FRONT > UP, IN > DOWN.
If any one of the five concepts is derived from the body-part model, then none of the concepts to its left may be derived from the landmark or any other model.
- Standardized
- BACK > FRONT > UP, IN > DOWN.
If any one of the five concepts is derived from the body-part model, then none of the concepts to its left may be derived from the landmark or any other model.
- Keywords
- spatial orientation, body part
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- target < source
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- African and Oceanic languages
- Source
- Heine, Claudi, & Hünnemeyer 1991: 130, cited in Heine 1997: 47
- Counterexamples
Heine 1997: 149 formulates a more specific prediction:If in a given language a new term for FRONT is introduced, then that term is almost invariably derived from a body-part noun.