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Space is not only an interesting physical or philosophical category. It is experienced and constructed in many varieties in our daily life. In different directions there are objects, near or far. They are located in space and help structure space in accordance with a certain point of view or frame of reference. Often the objects or we ourselves move and thereby new constellations arise. In this way time comes in as a separate category or dimension related to space. Dynamic space is a unit of temporal and geometric dimensions. Movement makes time emerge from the experience of space. As we talk about space and time it could be expected that the linguistic fundamentals pertaining to these categories be rooted in the conceptual spatial and temporal domains. And it could be expected that time and space still manifests their dynamic unity. In theoretical linguistics this relatedness has been noticed: “Human languages again and again express temporal and spatial notions in a similar way¡ This phenomenon is so widespread in different languages across the world and in different parts of the vocabulary, that we have to conclude that space and time are linked to each other in human thinking as well.” (Haspelmath, 1997, p. 1)
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Mylov, P. (2002). On Space, Its Time, and Spatiotemporal Expressions. In: Qvortrup, L., Jensen, J.F., Kjems, E., Lehmann, N., Madsen, C. (eds) Virtual Space. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0225-0_3
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