The structure of time : language, meaning, and temporal cognition

1. Acknowledgements; 2. I. Orientation; 3. 1. The problem of time; 4. 2. The phenomenology of time; 5. 3. The elaboration of temporal concepts; 6. 4. The nature of meaning; 7. 5. The conceptual metaphor approach to time; 8. 6. A theory of word-meaning: Principled polysemy; 9. II. Concepts for time; 10. 7. The Duration Sense; 11. 8. The Moment Sense; 12. 9. The Instance Sense; 13. 10. The Event Sense; 14. 11. The Matrix Sense; 15. 12. The Agentive Sense; 16. 13. The Measurement-system Sense; 17. 14. The Commodity Sense; 18. 15. The Present, Past and Future; 19. III. Models for time; 20. 16. Time, motion and agency; 21. 17. Two complex cognitive models of temporality; 22. 18. A third complex model of temporality; 23. 19. Time in modern physics; 24. 20. The structure of time; 25. Notes; 26. References; 27. Index