Book contents
- Language, Space and Mind
- Language, Space and Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: space, geometry, mind
- 2 Viewpoint, referenceframes and transformations
- 3 Distance, direction and verbs
- 4 Event types and cognitive operators
- 5 Times, tenses and referenceframes
- 6 Counterfactual reflections
- 7 Referenceframes and other minds
- 8 Mental distance and complement clauses
- 9 Verbs, complements and their conceptual effects
- 10 The deontic dimension
- 11 Concluding perspectives
- Appendix
- References
- Index
8 - Mental distance and complement clauses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Language, Space and Mind
- Language, Space and Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: space, geometry, mind
- 2 Viewpoint, referenceframes and transformations
- 3 Distance, direction and verbs
- 4 Event types and cognitive operators
- 5 Times, tenses and referenceframes
- 6 Counterfactual reflections
- 7 Referenceframes and other minds
- 8 Mental distance and complement clauses
- 9 Verbs, complements and their conceptual effects
- 10 The deontic dimension
- 11 Concluding perspectives
- Appendix
- References
- Index
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- Language, Space and MindThe Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning, pp. 210 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014