Chapter 6. Grammatical Space and Time

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. M. C. Escher: “The three Worlds” v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I
6. Chapter 2. Words for Space and Time 6
7. Chapter 3. Words for World 21
8. Chapter 4. The relationship between Space, Time and World 35
9. Chapter 5. The traditional Inuit World 40
10. Chapter 6. Grammatical Space and Time 50
11. Chapter 7. Being in Space and Time 64
12. Chapter 8. Orientation, local and wider scale 75
13. Chapter 9. Frames of reference revisited 91
14. Part II
15. Chapter 10. Psychological approaches 102
16. Chapter 11. The world we grew up in 111
17. Chapter 12. Simulation 115
18. Chapter 13. Canonical fictional and non-fictional worlds 123
19. Chapter 14. Some non-canonical worlds 135
20. Chapter 15. Maps and cosmologies, ancient and modern 144
21. Chapter 16. Earth’s Deep Time 161
22. Chapter 17. Measuring Space, Time and the World 176
23. Chapter 18. Conclusions 186
24. Abbreviations 197
25. References 199
26. Appendices
27. Appendix 1. Words for Sky, Air, and Weather 210
28. Appendix 2. Words for being and becoming in non-IE languages 213
29. Appendix 3. A tentative taxonomy of worlds 216
30. Subject index 219
31. Name index 221
32. Language index 223