Space, Time, World (Human Cognitive Processing, 77)

Space, Time, World
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
M.C. Escher: “The three Worlds”
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I
	Chapter 2 Words for Space and Time
		2.1 Words for Space
		2.2 Words for Time
	Chapter 3 Words for World
		3.1 Words for World in Indo-European languages and beyond
		3.2 World or Earth?
		3.3 World or Age?
	Chapter 4 The relationship between Space, Time and World
	Chapter 5 The traditional Inuit World
	Chapter 6 Grammatical Space and Time
		6.1 Deixis and locational expressions
		6.2 Aspect and tense
	Chapter 7 Being in Space and Time
		7.1 Words for being
		7.2 Words for Living
		7.3 Words for Home and Room
	Chapter 8 Orientation, local and wider scale
		8.1 Orientation in and around the house
		8.2 Orientation further afield
	Chapter 9 Frames of reference revisited
Part II
	Chapter 10 Psychological approaches
		10.1 A neurological perspective
		10.2 The development of the child’s spatiotemporal concepts
	Chapter 11 The world we grew up in
	Chapter 12 Simulation
	Chapter 13 Canonical fictional and non-fictional worlds
	Chapter 14 Some non-canonical worlds
	Chapter 15 Maps and cosmologies, ancient and modern
	Chapter 16 Earth’s Deep Time
		Precambrian
		Cambrian
		Ordovecian
		Silurian
		Devonian
		Carboniferous
		Permian
		Triassic
		Jurassic
		Cretaceous
		Paleocene
		Eocene
		Oligocene
		Miocene
		Pliocene
		Pleistocene
		Holocene
	Chapter 17 Measuring Space, Time and the World
		17.1 Units of Space
		17.2 Units of Time
	Chapter 18 Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
	Further sources utilized
Appendices
	Appendix 1. Words for Sky, Air, and Weather
	Appendix 2. Words for being and becoming in non-IE languages
	Appendix 3. A tentative taxonomy of worlds
Subject index
Name index
Language index