Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, culture, and cognition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC Data -- Table of contents -- Editors and contributors -- 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.