Temporality

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Temporality

Universals and Variation

Historical and comparative linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Language teaching and learning

Author: Maria Bittner

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Published on: 24th April 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 15 Mb

ISBN: 9781118584033


Temporality

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’

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