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.
| ISBN: | 9781405190398 |
| Publication date: | 13th May 2014 |
| Author: | Maria Bittner |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Explorations in Semantics |
| Genres: |
Language teaching and learning |
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'
Temporality features in the following genres: Language teaching and learning
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Temporality was written by Maria Bittner and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley
Temporality has 352 pages
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