Metaphoric Recursiveness and Ternary Ontology: Another Look at the Language and Worldview of the Yaminahua
My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal…