Alan M. Wallington

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan M. Wallington plays a role.

Articles

Wallington, Alan M. 2012 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
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
Wallington, Alan M. 2010 11. Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappingsResearching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 209–244 | Article
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
Agerri, Rodrigo, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Alan M. Wallington 2009 Inference and domain independent mappings in metaphor understandingRecent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007, Nicolov, Nicolas, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 259–268 | Article