Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, culture, and cognition
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Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition
Introduction: Linguistic, cultural, and cognitive approaches to space and time
	1. Preliminary remarks
	2. The contributions to the volume
	3. Perspectives for future research
	References
I. Linguistic and conceptual representation of events
1. Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture
	1. Introduction
	2. Calendars and time reckoning: Anthropological perspectives
	3. Amondawa culture and society: An overview
	4. Time intervals in Amondawa language and culture
	5. Time and the human lifespan in Amondawa
	6. Discussion
	References
2. Vagueness in event times: An epistemic solution
	1. Introduction
	2. Temporal vagueness vs predicate vagueness
	3. What is it that is vague?
	4. Selecting a theory for temporal vagueness
	5. Conclusions
	References
3. Aspectual coercions in content composition
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
	3. From type presupposition to coercion
	4. A sketch of a formal theory of lexical meaning
	5. Modality, aspect, and the verbal complex
	6. Conclusion
	References
4. Back to the future: Just where are forthcoming events located?
	1. Introduction
	2. Spatio-kinetic metaphors for time and the role of Ego
	3. On the nature of the future tense
	4. Future locations
	5. Epistemic metaphors
	6. Conclusion
	References
II. Cultural perspectives on space and time
5. The “Russian” attitude to time
	1. Introduction
	2. Semantics of the syntactic phraseme X v X ‘X to X’
	3. Pragmatics of the syntactic phraseme X v X ‘X to X’
	4. Conclusions
	References
6. Two temporalities of the Mongolian wolf hunter
	1. Introduction
	2. Pleasing the White Father and producing hiimor’
	3. Wolf, hiimor’, and predation
	4. Hiimor’ and temporality
	5. Concluding remarks
	References
7. Koromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives
	1. Introduction
	2. Geographic and sociolinguistic setting
	3. Time and Koromu morphosyntax
	4. Semantic primes and semantic molecules
	5. Basic temporal adverbs and temporal primes in Koromu
	6. Time, days, and parts of a day
	7. Counting the days - a deictic centred system
	8. Traditional perspectives on asi ‘months’
	9. Conclusion
	References
	Appendix 1
	Appendix 2
	Appendix 3
	Appendix 4
8. Universals and specifics of ‘time’ in Russian
	1. Introduction
	2. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) as a tool of semantic description
	3. Russian temporal expressions and cultural attitudes to time
	4. Concluding remarks
	References
III. Conceptualizing spatio-temporal relations
9. Linguistic manifestations of the space-time (dis)analogy
	1. Preliminaries
	2. The extensive noun-verb parallelism
	3. Asymmetries
	4. The multiple roles of time
	5. The dynamic conception of space
	6. Summation
	References
10. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec
	1. Introduction
	2. Orientation and frames of reference
	3. Data collection and methods
	4. Seri and Yucatec data
	5. Frames of reference and vectors
	6. Conclusion
	References
11. Verbal and gestural expression of motion in French and Czech
	1. The conceptual category of motion and language diversity
	2. Impact of language on the conceptualisation of motion
	3. Co-speech gesture
	4. The present study and hypotheses
	5. Participants
	6. Materials
	7. Procedure
	8. Speech and gesture coding
	9. Results
	10. Discussion and conclusion
	References
12. Language-specific effects on lexicalisation and memory of motion events
	1. Introduction
	2. The current study: Recognition and verbalisation with increased memory load
	3. Methods and materials
	4. Results
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusions
	References
13. Space and time in episodic memory: Philosophical and developmental perspectives
	1. Introduction
	2. Digging deeper: The Kantian roots
	3. Why this is a ‘minimalist’ view of episodic memory
	4. Objections: This minimalist account of episodic memory is neither (a) about memory, nor (b) episo
	5. Testing these ideas
	6. The Tim and Tom experiment
	7. Discussion and coda
	References
14. Conceptualizing the present through construal aspects: The case of the English temporal construc
	1. Introduction
	2. Analytical tools: A general introduction
	3. The analysis
	4. Conclusions
	References
15. From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning
	1. Introduction
	2. Method and material
	3. Mental imagery for paths or roads
	4. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses of path or road
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusion
	References
Contents of the companion volume: Linguistic diversity
Name index
Subject index
Language index