Time Concepts & the Origins of Language
A Theory by Rick Doble
It is my contention that it was the human understanding of linear time which gave humans the power to plan, organize, and design civilizations and develop cultures. And the key tool for working with time was language which could express linear time, i.e., past, present and future along with duration -- the key components of time. We are the only animal who has the ability to work with time in this manner. The following five blogs explain my ideas.
Time reference is a universal property of language...
Jacqueline Lecarme, Ph.D., Linguistics
How Our Concept of Time Is Embedded & Derived from Our Language
Dan Everett's How Language Began & Human Time Keeping
Toward a Comprehensive Hypothesis
About the Development of Language
and the Human-Sense-Of-Time
Based in Part on Daniel Everett's 'How Language Began'
An Expanded Hypothesis
That Relates the History
of the Human-Experience-Of-Time
to Culture, Technology and Belief Systems
in Addition to Language
The Origins of Language: When, Why and How
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