A01=Maria Bittner
aspect-based Chinese
aspectual semantics
Author_Maria Bittner
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=CFF
Category=CFG
Category=NL-CF
Centering Theory
compositional dynamic semantics
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
dynamic semantics
dynamic update logic
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Explorations in Semantics series
formal semantics
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grammatical centering systems
grammatical tense
HMM=244
IMPN=Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
ISBN13=9781405190398
language and computers
Language events
Language_English
linguistic meaning
logical representation languages
modal discourse
mood-based Kalaallisut
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PD=20140513
philosophy of language
POP=Chicester
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=John Wiley and Sons Ltd
semantics of language
SMM=16
SN=Explorations in Semantics
Subject=Linguistics
temporal semantics
tense-aspect-based Polish
tense-based English
WG=536
WMM=171
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- ISBN 9781405190398
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 172 x 246 x 16mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2014
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: Chicester, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- 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).
