Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Timeless concept of Temporality
6. Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time? 3
7. Spatial construal of time extended
8. Situating Events in Language 27
9. Speaking, Gesturing, Reasoning 43
10. Temporal Language and Temporal Thinking May Not Go Hand in Hand 67
11. Western Conception of Time in Signed Languages: a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective 85
12. The Mental Timeline During the Processing of Linguistic Information 103
13. Time conceptualizations beyond space
14. The cultural cognition of time 125
15. When time is not space 151
16. Metaphor and thought 187
17. Conceptualizations of temporal categories
18. Temporal scenery 207
19. Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia – concepts, linguistic area 243
20. Distributional sources of time conceptualization
21. Reflection of temporal horizon in linguistic performance 273
22. Time-discretising adverbials 295
23. Author index 317
24. Subject index 323