Temporality

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aspect-based Chinese
aspectual semantics
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Centering Theory
compositional dynamic semantics
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dynamic semantics
dynamic update logic
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Explorations in Semantics series
formal semantics
grammatical centering systems
grammatical tense
language and computers
Language events
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linguistic meaning
logical representation languages
modal discourse
mood-based Kalaallisut
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philosophy of language
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semantics of language
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temporal semantics
tense-aspect-based Polish
tense-based English

Product details

  • ISBN 9781405190404
  • Weight: 703g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 252mm
  • Publication Date: 13 May 2014
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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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’

Maria 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).