In:Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach
Edited by Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar
[Human Cognitive Processing 81] 2026
► pp. vii–viii
Published online: 27 January 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.81.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.81.toc
Table of contents
Thinking and speaking about time: Introduction1
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Mario Brdar
Part I.Fundamental issues
Chapter 1.Metaphor, myth, and symbol in the grain of time16
Chris Sinha
Chapter 2.Verbs, time and existence39
Ronald W. Langacker
Part II.Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures
Chapter 3.Yesterday’s eve: Patterns of polysemy among the deictic temporals of Australian
languages102
Alice Gaby
Chapter 4.Event-based time in Amazonian cultures and languages114
Vera da Silva Sinha
Part III.Metaphor, metonymy, and time conceptualization
Chapter 5.Conceptual metaphor and the temporality therein150
Žolt Papišta
Chapter 6.Drawing the direction of Estonian verbs: From temporality to emotion and beyond176
Ilona Tragel
Chapter 7.When moving Ego meets moving Time in Finnish197
Krista Teeri
Tuomas Huumo
Chapter 8.Time, motion, and cyclicity: Two words for ‘time’ in Russian223
Tore Nesset
Chapter 9.Approaching the end of the time metaphor game:
Some constructions with the Moving-Ego metaphors
from a cross-linguistic perspective252
Some constructions with the Moving-Ego metaphors
from a cross-linguistic perspective252
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Mario Brdar
Yutian Qin
Hyunisa Rahmanadia
Ren Imai
Chapter 10.The time it takes: Metonymic aspect in English and French279
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Linda L. Thornburg
Chapter 11.All work and no play make the weekend frame go away? Metonymic micro-variation in online news articles308
Réka Benczes
Utku Bozdağ
Lilla Petronella Szabó
Part IV.Time and grammar
Chapter 12.The temporal nature of the Hungarian infinitive
and participles326
and participles326
Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy
Chapter 13.From temporality to dynamicity: A data-based analysis of Hungarian verbal and participial
constructions351
Nóra Kugler
László Palágyi
Gábor Simon
Chapter 14.Taking stance through grammar:
Perfective vs. imperfective aspect384
Perfective vs. imperfective aspect384
Frank Brisard
Chapter 15.When to open the internal time window? On the contextual functions of the progressive form in
Finnish400
Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö
Chapter 16.Time reference, deixis, contextualization: The case of most ‘now’ in Hungarian421
András Imrényi
Krisztina Laczkó
Szilárd Tátrai
Chapter 17.The role of demonstrative determiners in temporal reference442
Renate Pajusalu
Maria Reile
Piia Taremaa
Index
Index of languages
Index of metaphors and metonymies
