TY - BOOK AU - Bittner,Maria TI - Temporality: universals and variation T2 - Explorations in semantics SN - 9781118584033 AV - P294.5 U1 - 415 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Temporal constructions KW - Linguistic universals KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - Semantics KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Natural language processing (Computer science) KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and indexes N2 - "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"-- UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118584002 ER -