The Structure of Time -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication -- Sonnet XII -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Orientation -- The problem of time -- 1.1. The metaphysical problem and the linguistic problem -- 1.2. Temporal cognition -- 1.3. Why should we be interested in investigating time? -- 1.4. Introduction to the rest of the book -- The phenomenology of time -- 2.1. Temporal concepts and event-comparison -- 2.2. The phenomenological basis of time -- 2.3. Studies investigating the experience of duration -- 2.4. Investigations of temporal experience as ``felt'' -- 2.5. Temporal processing -- 2.6. Perceptual moments as the basis for the experience of duration -- 2.7. The perceptual moment and the experience of now -- 2.8. Discourse, consciousness and time -- 2.9. The primacy of subjective experience -- 2.10. Conclusion -- The elaboration of temporal concepts -- 3.1. Intermodal connections and cognition -- 3.2. Subjective concepts and levels of cognitive processing -- 3.3. Conclusion -- The nature of meaning -- 4.1. Meaning, experience and the nature of evolution -- 4.2. The embodiment of meaning -- 4.3. The experiential basis of conceptual meaning -- 4.4. Experiential correlation -- 4.5. Perceptual resemblance -- 4.6. Perception and `reality' -- 4.7. Perceptual analysis -- 4.8. On the meaning of words -- 4.9. Dictionaries versus encyclopaedias -- 4.10. Meaning and truth -- 4.11. Conclusion -- The conceptual metaphor approach to time -- 5.1. Primary and compound metaphors -- 5.2. The moving time and moving ego mappings -- 5.3. Evaluating moving time and moving ego as instancs of primary metaphor -- 5.3.1. The problem of unelaborated time -- 5.3.2. The problem of cultural constructs -- 5.3.3. The problem of complex concepts -- 5.4. Implications for the primary metaphor approach.

5.5. Implications for the present study -- 5.6. Conclusion -- A theory of word-meaning -- 6.1. Traditional views of lexical structure -- 6.1.1. The `distributed' nature of word-meaning -- 6.1.2. Polysemy -- 6.1.3. Grammatical considerations -- 6.2. Alternative approaches to lexical concepts -- 6.3. Meaning-extension as a principled process -- 6.3.1. The modelling issue -- 6.3.2. The methodological issue: Determining distinct senses -- 6.3.3. The methodological issue: Determining the Sanctioning Sense -- 6.3.4. The origination issue -- 6.3.5. The actuation issue -- 6.4. Principled polysemy -- 6.5. Conclusion -- Part II. Concepts for time -- The Duration Sense -- 7.1. Defining the Duration Sense -- 7.2. Evidence for the Duration Sense -- 7.3. Duration as the Sanctioning Sense -- 7.4. Elaboration in terms of physical length -- 7.5. Elaboration in terms of quality of experience -- 7.6. Temporal compression and protracted duration -- 7.7. Elaboration of temporal compression and protracted duration -- 7.8. An overview of the semantic network -- 7.9. Conclusion -- The Moment Sense -- 8.1. Evidence for the Moment Sense -- 8.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 8.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 8.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 8.2. The Moment Sense versus the Duration Sense -- 8.3. Deriving the Moment Sense -- 8.4. Conclusion -- The Instance Sense -- 9.1. Evidence for the Instance Sense -- 9.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 9.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 9.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 9.2. Derivation of the Instance Sense -- 9.3. Conclusion -- The Event Sense -- 10.1. Evidence for the Event Sense -- 10.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 10.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 10.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 10.2. Further examples -- 10.3. Derivation of the Event Sense -- 10.4. Conclusion -- The Matrix Sense.

11.1. Evidence for the Matrix Sense -- 11.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 11.1.2. The Grammatical Criterion -- 11.2. Concept elaboration employing motion content -- 11.3. Elaboration employing non-motion content -- 11.4. Derivation of the Matrix Sense -- 11.5. Conclusion -- The Agentive Sense -- 12.1. Evidence for the Agentive Sense -- 12.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 12.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 12.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 12.2. Comparison with Lakoff and Turner (1989) -- 12.3. Derivation of the Agentive Sense -- 12.4. Conclusion -- The Measurement-system Sense -- 13.1. Evidence for the Measurement-system Sense -- 13.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 13.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 13.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 13.2. Periodicity and the co-ordination of activity -- 13.3. Derivation of the Measurement-system Sense -- 13.4. Conclusion -- The Commodity Sense -- 14.1. Evidence for the Commodity Sense -- 14.1.1. The Meaning Criterion -- 14.1.2. The Concept Elaboration Criterion -- 14.1.3. The Grammatical Criterion -- 14.2. Derivation of the Commodity Sense -- 14.3. Conclusion -- The Present, Past and Future -- 15.1. Present, Past and Future -- 15.2. The Present and concept elaboration -- 15.3. The Past and Future, and concept elaboration -- 15.4. Cross-cultural differences: Aymara -- 15.5. Mandarin and the Temporal Sequence Model -- 15.6. Conclusion -- Part III. Models for time -- Time, motion and agency -- 16.1. Time and motion -- 16.2. Motion and concept elaboration -- 16.3. Motion and agency -- 16.4. Conclusion -- Two complex cognitive models of temporality -- 17.1. Moving Time and Moving Ego as Complex Cognitive models -- 17.2. Evidence for Complex Moving Time -- 17.3. The Complex Moving Time model -- 17.4. Evidence for the Complex Moving Ego model -- 17.5. The Complex Moving Ego model.

17.6. Complex Moving Time versus Complex Moving Ego -- 17.7. Levels of conceptual organisation -- 17.8. Primary scenes and grounding scenarios -- 17.9. Conclusion -- A third complex model of temporality -- 18.1. Sequencing relations -- 18.2. The Complex Temporal Sequence model -- 18.3. The Complex Temporal Sequence model in Hausa -- 18.4. Earlier/later and the vertical axis -- 18.5. Conclusion -- Time in modern physics -- 19.1. The rise of relativity -- 19.2. Time in special relativity -- 19.3. Spacetime -- 19.4. Bergson's view of Einsteinian time -- 19.5. Conclusion -- The structure of time -- 20.1. Two problems of time -- 20.2. A richer view -- 20.2.1. The inherent structure of time: Time as process -- 20.2.2. The ascribed structure of time: Time as object -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- References.