Gestures related to time can reveal implicit representations of the TIME is SPACE metaphor (Núñez & Sweetser, 2006). While past research has shown that gestures illustrate the direction of future and past on timelines, no detailed analysis of timelines has been possible. Using the Kinect depth camera and body tracking technology, we tracked participants’ co-speech gestures while explaining time...

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: n...