Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality

Zusatztext a highly influential and innovative combination of syntactic analysis ... accompanied by careful and rigorous semantic analysis. Informationen zum Autor James Higginbotham is Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was formerly Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the nature of linguistic competence, problems of compositionality, and indexical reference in thought and communication. He has published widely in linguistics and philosophy and is equally at home in both fields. Klappentext James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy. Zusammenfassung James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference. The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all those involved in the study of current semantics, and its interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields.

Product details

• Authors: James Higginbotham, James (University of Southern California) Higginbotham, Higginbotham James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2009
• EAN: 9780199239313
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923931-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics No.26; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics No.26
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc