Calendric_unit

Words in this frame name the different parts of the calendric cycle, both man-made and natural. Frame elements include Whole for the whole of which the target is a part, Relative_time (RelT) for locating the time with respect to an identifiable reference point, and Name for the name of the day (month, etc.) of a specially named unit. Words in this frame figure into a variety of temporal schemas, realized as constructions. There are families of constructions in which these words occur, including ones in which weekday names combine with day part names using particular prepositions (e.g. on Wednesday morning, cf. on Wednesday, but in the morning) and ones in which calendric terms fill the slots in multi-word expressions such as N-after-N (e.g. day after day), N-by-N (e.g. week by week), N-to-N (e.g. month to month), etc. More can be found on these in Fillmore (2002). Note, also, the connection between this frame and Iteration, specifically that many iterative adjectives and adverbs are based on calendric terms (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, etc.). Jo's mother will visit this coming Tuesday.