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OverviewTemporality 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' Full Product DetailsAuthor: M BittnerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781118584002ISBN 10: 1118584007 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 07 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Digital Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMaria Bittner is a Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Semantics and Semantics & Pragmatics . She is well known for her work on cross-linguistic formal semantics, dynamic semantics, and syntax-semantics interface, with special focus on Kalaallisut (Eskimo-Aleut: Greenland). Her early research in LF-based static semantics culminated in Case, Scope, and Binding (1994). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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