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I analyze English and Finnish  front  adpositions commonly used in  sequence  metaphors of time ( The days ahead of Christmas are busy ). A  sequence  metaphor represents the order of temporal entities as their different positions on a path along which they are moving, a temporally earlier entity being ‘ahead of’ a later one, i.e. further advanced in the direction of motion. In English, the motion-related  front  preposition  ahead of  is conventional in  sequence  metaphors, as opposed to  in front of , which is used only occasionally and often results in ill-formedness ( *Monday is in front of Tuesday ). In Finnish, the dedicated two-mover adposition  edellä  ‘ahead of [two-mover]’ is conventional in  sequence  metaphors, while the general  front  adposition  edessä  is not. Based on an analysis of these adpositions in different scenarios of spatial motion, I argue that the adpositions common in  sequence  metaphors ( ahead of, edellä ) evoke a motion frame of reference (motion FoR). In the motion FoR,  front  is adjacent to the direction where the moving Ground (the entity designated by the complement of the adposition) is headed. In contrast, adpositions that bear a strong association with the standard (intrinsic or relative) FoRs ( in front of  and  edessä ) are less felicitous in  sequence  metaphors. Together, the two languages demonstrate how a metaphorical motion scenario in a  sequence  metaphor is grammatically coded as a stable, unchanging array, where both participants are steadily moving in the same direction.

Why Monday is not in front of Tuesday: On the uses of English and Finnish front adpositions in sequence metaphors of time