Book Description
Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
Author : Aleksandar Jokić
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262600507
Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019506206X
This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.
Author : Paul Chilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1107010136
A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Author : Alfred Schopf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111358364
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Author : Olga Borik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199291284
Introduction -- Main theories of aspect (1) : the telicity approach -- Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity : testing the hypothesis -- Main theories of aspect (2) : the point of view approach -- Reference time -- Russian aspect in terms of reference time.
Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1239 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131655273X
Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1991-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195345134
This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured.
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195381971
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311019709X
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : James A. McGilvray
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1991-09-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 077356313X
Using Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tenses and temporal structures as a point of departure, McGilvray modifies it to produce a theory of his own. Analysing the difficulties Reichenbach's theory has in explaining the relationship of a speaker to a world, he introduces a new model for this relationship based on the three-interval temporal topology that Reichenbachian theory assigns to the sentences of natural languages. McGilvray explains and defends in detail Reichenbach's theory of tense and temporal structure, criticising and rejecting the major rival theory, found in tense logic. He also applies Reichenbach's nonstandard topology to English, showing that it is correct for the language. A significant aspect of McGilvray's study is the supplementing of Reichenbach's topology by including speakers, sentences, situations, and things spoken about with the temporal intervals. McGilvray relocates and reinterprets a prime source of faulty intuitions concerning time and tense -- our feeling that the past, present, and future must be thought of in terms of the settled, the immediate, and the unsettled. He uses his theory to explain the temporal and semantic structure of complex constructions in English, including propositional attitudes, modals, and conditionals. As well, he adapts the structure that Reichenbach's theory assigns to sentences to the aspects perfective (complete) and imperfective (incomplete). The novel view of temporal and semantic structure developed by McGilvray touches on virtually all the puzzles concerning the philosophy of language -- meaning and meaningfulness, the nature of reference, truth, propositions, and worldmaking. His emphasis is on how the speaker, by articulating sentences and understanding them, is both free and constrained -- free to describe something which can be located at any time and in any world, but constrained by the beliefs, evidence, information, and commitments held or made at the time of speech.