The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
22. How We Conceptualise Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
Vyvyan Evans [+]
Bangor University
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Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and author of numerous books relating to cognitive linguistics. These include How Words Mean, The Structure of Time, The Semantics of English Prepositions (with Andrea Tyler), Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green), and A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics.
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In contrast to the previous paper in this section, this chapter is concerned with the way the open-class semantic system encodes conceptual structure, here relating to the domain of TIME and employs novel lexical semantic analysis of the lexeme TIME.