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Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Anna Čermáková
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-17 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swe
Language and Time
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Quentin Smith
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smit
Language and Time
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Vyvyan Evans
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.
The Spatial Language of Time
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Kevin Ezra Moore
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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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
Time in Language
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Wolfgang Klein
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express