The Cognitive Metaphors of Noun Classes

One of the non-classes puts women water fire violence and exceptional and exceptional animals together in one class yeah. In english there's a whole bunch of metaphors that conceptualize surprising things as possessions for example beliefs are possessions i hold certain beliefs he clings to beliefs, obligations are possessions it's out of my hands now. A lot of this stuff is stuff that you would not actually think of as metaphorical when you say it like she has a nice sense of humor or he gave his son a sense of self-worth.