The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof

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This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conce

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This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time an