Alan M. Wallington
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan M. Wallington plays a role.
Articles
4. Back to the future: Just where are forthcoming events located? Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 83–99 | Article
2012 This chapter addresses the question posed in these volumes of the interrelationship of
time and space. It contrasts the view that the concept of space structures that of
time with the alternative that there is a close relationship between time and epistemic
modality. Focusing on metaphors, the… read more
11. Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 209–244 | Article
2010 I argue that the origin of the apparent systematicity found in families of related metaphors lies not in ontologically-rich skeletal source domain schemas with slots that map to target domain correspondents. This suggests a rigidity which is inappropriate, and misses significant cross- metaphor… read more
Inference and domain independent mappings in metaphor understanding Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007, Nicolov, Nicolas, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 259–268 | Article
2009