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Temporality : Universals and Variation

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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: 9781405190398
  • ISBN-10: 1405190396
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publish Date: June 2014
  • Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Page Count: 348

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