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The current paper speculates on the LINEARISATION of time in language. It focuses on the feasibility of applying the hypothesis about the grammaticalization chain to conceiving of the hermeneutic character of language and the ontology of time and temporality in it. It draws parallels between language as a first order modeling system and mythology as an instance of a second order modeling system in order to promote the notion of linearization and narrativization as the major modes of cognition. The grammaticalization chain is used not only as a descriptive tool and technique, but also as the epitome of the phenomena being described. The hypothesis of the paper is that the grammaticalization chain inscribes the evolution of human emancipation from the phenomenology of the world, and the advance of discrete thinking. The fact that we need to be able to linguistically conceive of language in order to generate meaningful discourse organization is representative of the impossibility to ever get out of the hermeneutics of language. What is important is that no matter where we enter the circle the crucial threshold is TIME. Time is constitutive of language and subjectivity.

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