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This book presents a cognitive linguistic study of distance representations carried out using the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish. Corpus­based examination of linguistic expressions of spatial expanse in the semantic context of motion events suggests that as language users we are at certain liberty to choose either spatial or temporal conceptualization of distance according to what suits our subjective profiling needs relevant to a particular situation. From the perspective of research presented in this book, the entanglement of time and space in cognition is a rabbit hole phenomenon that runs deep beyond the ties that bind space to time in motion, on the one hand, and the socio-cultural sedimentation of meaning through commonly used phraseology, on the other. It appears to hinge on a higher-order ontological and epistemological distinction between objects and events, which may influence our spatial-temporal reasoning. Additionally, this book demonstrates a cognitive schema of temporaI horizon emergent from the frequency of expressions denoting temporaI distance found in spontaneous informal conversations. Taken together the research presented in this volume indicates that, at least in certain contexts, space and time can act in a complementary manner in cognition.

Space and time in language. --- Cognitive grammar.

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How did Ancient Greek express that an event occurred at a particular time, for a certain duration, or within a given time frame? The answer to these questions depends on a variety of conditions - the nature of the time noun, the tense and aspect of the verb, the particular historical period of Greek during which the author lived - that existing studies of the language do not take sufficiently into account. This book accordingly examines the circumstances that govern the use of the genitive, dative, and accusative of time, as well as the relevant prepositional constructions, primarily in Greek prose of the fifth century BC through the second century AD, but also in Homer. While the focus is on developments in Greek, translations of the examples, as well as a fully glossed summary chapter, make it accessible to linguists interested in the expression of time generally.

Greek language --- Space and time in language. --- Language and languages --- Grammar. --- Tense. --- Syntax.

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This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- English poetry -- History and criticism. --- Space and time in language. --- Space and time in literature. --- English poetry --- Space and time in literature --- Space and time in language --- American poetry --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Language and languages --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- American literature --- History and criticism

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The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of linguistic meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put forward by a number of linguists in recent years. This book takes this proposal into new dimensions and develops a theoretical framework based on simple geometric principles. All speakers are conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and the real world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of verbs, including tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well as the conceptual workings of grammatical constructions associated with counterfactuality, other minds and the expression of moral force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences throughout and concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language, brain and mind.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Space and time in language --- Geometry --- Computational linguistics --- Cognitieve linguïstiek. --- Computational linguistics. --- Computerlinguïstiek. --- Geometrie en linguistiek. --- Geometry. --- Mathematical linguistics. --- Mathematische linguïstiek. --- Ruimte en tijd --- Space and time in language. --- Taalkunde. --- Language and languages --- Algebraic linguistics --- Linguistics --- Linguistics, Mathematical --- Applied linguistics --- Information theory --- Mathematics --- Euclid's Elements --- Automatic language processing --- Language data processing --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Multilingual computing --- Statistical methods --- Mathematical models --- Data processing

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The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- 801.56 --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Metaforen --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Space and time in language. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- Language and languages --- Temporal constructions. --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology