Temporality – Universals and Variations : Universals and Variation
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Explorations in Semantics
ISBN-10
1405190396
ISBN-13
9781405190398
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
MY
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 2014
Print length
348 Pages
Weight
540 grams
Dimensions
24.60 x 17.20 x 1.80 cms
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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.
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 tenseNew in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse referencePresents 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’
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