Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Editors and contributors

Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition
Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Luna Filipovic

Introduction: Linguistic, cultural, and cognitive approaches to space and time
Luna Filipovic and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

Part I. Linguistic and conceptual representation of events

1. Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture
Vera da Silva Sinha, Chris Sinha, Wany Sampaio and Jörg Zinken

2. Vagueness in event times: An epistemic solution
Minyao Huang

3. Aspectual coercions in content composition
Nicholas Asher and Julie Hunter

4. Back to the future: Just where are forthcoming events located?
Alan M. Wallington

Part II. Cultural perspectives on space and time

5. The "Russian" attitude to time
Valentina Apresjan

6. Two temporalities of the Mongolian wolf hunter
Bernard Charlier

7. Koromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives
Carol Priestley

8. Universals and specifics of 'time' in Russian
Anna Gladkova

Part III. Conceptualizing spatio-temporal relations

9. Linguistic manifestations of the space-time (dis)analogy
Ronald W. Langacker

10. Vectors and frames of reference: Evidence from Seri and Yucatec
Jürgen Bohnemeyer and Carolyn O'Meara

11. Verbal and gestural expression of motion in French and Czech
Katerina Fibigerová, Michèle Guidetti and Lenka Sulová

12. Language-specific effects on lexicalisation and memory of motion events
Luna Filipovic and Sharon Geva

13. Space and time in episodic memory: Philosophical and developmental perspectives
James Russell and Jonathan Davies

14. Conceptualizing the present through construal aspects: The case of the English temporal constructions
Grzegorz Drozdz

15. From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning
Marlene Johansson Falck

Contents of the companion volume: Linguistic diversity

Name index