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Overview
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'
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- ISBN-13: 9781405190404
- ISBN-10: 140519040X
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish Date: May 2014
- Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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