Temporality Universals And Variation
Maria Bittner · 2014
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"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' "-- "Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 330
- ISBN
- 9781405190404
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