The Semantics of the Future

by Bridget Copley

Book Overview

This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic framework. Arguments presented herein explicate the meanings of these expressions, and account for similarities and differences among them. Shared is a future-oriented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415808227
• ISBN13: 9780415808224
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"