Temporality - Universals and Variation

"Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of 'grammatical centering systems' "--

Product details

• Authors: BITTNER, M Bittner, Maria Bittner, Maria (Rutgers University Bittner, Bittner Maria
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2014
• EAN: 9781405190404
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9040-4
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Explorations in Semantics; Explorations in Semantics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Philosophie, Semantik, Sprachphilosophie, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sprachwissenschaften, Semantics