Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Time as a Multidimensional Concept -- TIMELY: A Network on Timing and Time Perception -- Introduction -- Main Topics of TIMELY -- Acknowledgments -- References -- PART 1 TIME IN PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE -- Time and Time Experience in Language -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Time as a concept -- Methods and materials to study time in language -- How time is expressed in language -- Lexical - morphological level -- Prepositions -- Smaller units of time: affixation -- Grammatical level -- Time and grammatical categories: Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart -- Sequence of tenses -- Utterer's meaning, utterer's attitude: time as modality -- Polysemy of the form time in language and definitional properties of the meaning of time -- Time and time units: Language and culture -- Conceptualizations of time: metaphors -- A general classification of TIME conceptualizations in language -- TIME in SPACE -- Time as motion in space: Orientation -- Metaphors: properties of time -- Time and event structure -- Perception and conceptualization of events -- Events as they are in mind -- Prototypical events -- Asymmetric events (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2008) -- Temporal parameters and parts of speech -- Subjective time. Metaphors again:Time extension / Time contraction -- Conclusions -- Grammar, metaphor and temporal dimension cross-linguistically -- Grammatical categories and the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis -- References -- Is Present Time a Precondition for the Existence of theMaterial and Public World? -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- The everyday understanding of the NOW -- Fundamental 1: Knowing takes place only in present time -- Fundamental 2: The NOW is not a measurement or objectified configuration -- Fundamental 3: The NOW is not a mere phenomenal property of consciousness.

Fundamental 4: The NOW has no past -- Fundamental 5: The NOW is that which gives the material universe its autonomy and non-solipsistic character -- The second approach: The counter-intuitive understanding of the NOW -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Toward a definition of present time -- References -- Time to Talk -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Discursive Psychology -- The Problem of Construction and Interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Complementarity of Space and Time in Motion-Framed Distance -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- (A)symmetry of space and time in cognition -- Views on the relationship between space and time in cognition -- Linguistic representation of motion events -- Space and time in motion-framed distance representations -- Methodology of research -- Representations of motion-framed distance for the manner of motion -- Representations of motion-framed distance for the instrument of motion -- Summary of findings -- Conclusions -- References -- Atemporality of Coextension Paths -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Fictive motion -- Cognitive linguistic models of fictive motion -- Fictive motion as a cognitive simulation -- Temporality of fictive motion -- Temporality of coextension paths -- Methodology of research -- Atemporality of coextension paths in the BNC -- Conceptual motivation of atemporality in coextension paths -- Conclusions -- References -- Temporal Parameters of Narrative Events: a Study of Unitizing a Videotaped Activity and its Verbal Coding -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Study one - online video segmentation -- Method -- Subjects -- Question and goal -- Materials -- Procedure -- Results and qualitative analysis -- Conclusions -- Study two - English and Polish verbalization of the observed video narrative -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure and materials -- Variables.

Results and analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Investigating Perceptions of Lexical Obsolence -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Findings -- Summary of the findings -- References -- Evidentiality and Temporal Perspective of Utterance -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Evidentiality and related categories -- Epistemic modality and evidentiality interface -- Evidentiality and deixis -- Inference based evidence -- Direct perception and perception based inference -- Reportive evidence -- Conclusion -- References -- Creating the Timeline in English Narratives: the Bilingual Perspective -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Temporal structuring: An outline of the process -- The study -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Results -- English monolinguals -- Polish monolinguals -- The immigrants -- The students -- Discussion -- References -- PART 2 TEMPORAL PROCESSING OF SPEECH -- Prospective Timing During Conversations -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Time, communication, and conversation -- Temporal dimensions of speech and response-latency -- Prospective and retrospective timing -- Retrospective timing -- Prospective timing -- The Expectancy Violation theory -- A model of prospective timing during a conversation -- Do humans hold naïve theories about the role of prospective timing and about the gaps between expected and perceived durations of RLs in communication via spoken language -- The survey -- Results -- Prospective timing during a spoken conversation-a preliminary empirical test of the model -- Procedure -- Method -- Stimuli -- Experimental design -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- On Distinctive Visual and Auditory Timing Cues in Language Tasks -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Timing Auditory Cues in Language Tasks -- Material and Procedure -- Results -- Data Discussion.

Timing Visual Cues in Language Tasks -- Materials and Experimental Set-Up -- Results and Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PART 3 TIME IN GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- A Brief Account of a Negation Theory of the Slavonic Verbal Aspects -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- A negation-based classification of occurrences of aspectual forms -- A critique of the standard interpretation of the main Slavonic aspectual differentiation of event verbs. Preliminaries. Arguments for the alternative view -- A formal argument for non-viability of the standard interpretation of the aspectual distinction -- References -- TIME in a Semantically-annotated Corpus of Canadian English -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- International Corpus of English -- The UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) -- The distribution of Time tags over all genres -- T1-T4 -- Focus on beginning vs. ending, young vs. old, early vs. late -- Time tags in particular genres -- Summary of corpus results -- Conclusion -- References -- Time Metaphors in English - a Corpus-based Study -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Theory -- Meaning and empiria -- Conceptual abilities -- Metaphors -- Flow -- Corpus linguistics -- BNC Corpus -- Metaphor -- Metaphors and time -- Internal construction -- The malleability of time -- Time in space -- Standing in time or outside it -- The time horizon -- Importance -- Collocations -- Metaphorical collocations of time - its representations and practical analysis -- Verb + 'time' -- Time is a…subject + verb + noun -- Conclusions -- References -- Metaphorical and Metonymic Representations of Time in Polish Sign Language -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction: signed languages -- Metaphor and metonymy -- Time in PJM -- Representations of time in PJM -- Time as space -- Units of time.

Hour and minute -- 24-hour cycle and its parts -- Calendar, week, month, and year -- Seasons of the year -- The rate of the flow of time -- Conclusions -- References -- Duration in English and in French: a Linguistic Description of the Relation Between a Process and a Time Interval -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Process representations and intervals of time -- Processes -- Processes and the time line -- Intervals of time -- Representation of the determination of durative for upon verbs -- Complete correspondence between the class of instants and the process representation -- Incomplete correspondence -- The occurrence takes place on the left bracket of the class of instants -- For in contrast to other interval markers -- During: otherness inside the interval -- In, a new identity for the class of instants -- For, identification of the interval in opposition to external instants -- For and some French translations -- For / Depuis -- For / pendant -- For / l'espace de -- Conclusion -- References -- Enhancing the Acquisition of Foreign-language Tense Properties -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Contrastiveness in pedagogical grammar -- L1 experience -- The stages -- Initial exposure -- Imprinting -- Explication -- Explanation -- Interface formation -- Competence expansion -- Teaching the English tense/aspect system using contrastive/ interfacial instruction -- 'Reported speech' -- Conditionality -- Present Simple vs. Present Progressive -- Present Progressive with future time reference -- Enter generative insights -- Empirical findings -- The research set-up -- Reported speech and embedded questions -- Conditional constructions -- Results -- Reported speech -- Conclusions -- References -- PART 4 TIME AND THE ARTS -- Relativity of Time in Belles-lettres -- Abstract -- Keywords -- References.

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