Timelines and Temporal Pointing in Chinese Sign Language

We argue that Chinese Sign Language (CSL) provides new insights into temporal anaphora, as well puzzles. Partee 1973 showed talk in English involves abstract anaphoric mechanisms akin to pronouns, although with a very different form. Schlenker 2013 argued American (ASL), one and the same overt pronominal form, pointing sign, can have individual uses, but his data involved loci across domains: no formal property distinguished from anaphora. replicate ASL anaphora CSL, we also display finding: CSL allows for locus establishment on two specifically timelines, sagittal (past is backwards) vertical up). Not only be CSL; it morphologically nominal (various interesting restrictions timelines are described).