Table of contents
Chapter 1.
Introduction
1
Part I
5
Chapter 2.
Words for Space and Time
6
2.1
Words for Space
10
2.2
Words for Time
14
Chapter 3.
Words for World
21
3.1
Words for World in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
22
3.2
World or Earth?
27
3.3
World or Age?
31
Chapter 4.
The relationship between Space, Time and World
35
Chapter 5.
The traditional Inuit World
40
Chapter 6.
Grammatical Space and Time
50
6.1
Deixis and locational expressions
51
6.2
Aspect and Tense
55
Chapter 7.
Being in Space and Time
64
7.1
Words for Being
65
7.2
Words for Living
69
7.3
Words for Home and Room
71
Chapter 8.
Orientation, local and wider scale
75
8.1
Orientation in and around the house
76
8.2
Orientation further afield
82
Chapter 9.
Frames of reference revisited
91
Part II
101
Chapter 10.
Psychological approaches
102
10.1
A neurological perspective
103
10.2
The development of the child’s spatiotemporal concepts
107
Chapter 11.
The world we grew up in
111
Chapter 12.
Simulation
Language-generated worlds
115
Chapter 13.
Canonical fictional and non-fictional worlds
123
Chapter 14.
Some non-canonical worlds
135
Chapter 15.
Maps and cosmologies, ancient and modern
144
Chapter 16.
Earth’s Deep Time
161
Chapter 17.
Measuring Space, Time, and the World
176
17.1
Units of Space
178
17.2
Units of Time
181
Chapter 18.
Conclusions
186
Abbreviations
197
References
199
Appendices
210
Appendix 1.
Words for Sky, Air, and Weather
210
Appendix 2.
Words for being and becoming in non-IE languages
213
Appendix 3.
A tentative taxonomy of worlds
216
Subject index
Name index
Language index