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Temporality

Universals and Variation

Authors: Maria Bittner Publisher: Wiley Publication date: 2014 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 352 Publication formats: EAN: 9781118584033 ISBN: 9781118584033 Category: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc linguistics Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -

Description

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’

Author's affiliation

Maria Bittner: Rutgers University, USA