Temporality: Universals and Variation

By Maria Bittner

Book 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'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405190396
• ISBN13: 9781405190398
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.5"