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Temporality : universals and variation / Maria Bittner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Explorations in semanticsPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118584033
  • 1118584031
  • 9781118584019
  • 1118584015
  • 9781118584002
  • 1118584007
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Temporality.DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P294.5
Other classification:
  • LAN016000
Online resources: Summary: "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' "-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense"-- Provided by publisher.
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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' "-- Provided by publisher.

"Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and indexes.

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