Temporality

Universals and Variation

von Maria Bittner

348 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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'

• ISBN: 9781405190398
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2014
• Größe: 241 x 168 mm
• Verlag: Wiley