Temporality : universals and variation /

• Main Author: Bittner, Maria
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Explorations in semantics.
• Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions.; Linguistic universals.; Language and languages > Variation.; Semantics.; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Natural language processing (Computer science) > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Semantics > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.; Electronic books.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-317) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9781118584033; 1118584031; 9781118584019; 1118584015; 9781118584002; 1118584007
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118584002

"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"--