| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The expression of cognitive categories ; 3
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Expression of cognitive categories ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Wolfgang Klein and Ping Li -- Concepts of time / Wolfgang Klein -- How time is encoded / Wolfgang Klein -- Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language: the case of Yucatec / Jürgen Bohnemeyer -- Tenses in compositional semantics / Arnim von Stechow -- Temporality in first and second language acquisition / Yasuhiro Shirai -- New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages / Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll and Wolfgang Klein -- Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations / Carol J. Madden and Todd R. Ferretti -- Computational modeling of the expression of time / Ping Li and Xiaowei Zhao. |
| Summary |
"Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book is intended as a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. Its chapters take the reader through a number of foundational issues, such as the various notions of time and the various means to express it; other chapters are devoted to more specific questions, such as the acquisition of time, its modelling in formal semantics and in computational linguistics, or how its expression can be empirically investigated"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense. |
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Tense (Logic)
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Tense (Logic) |
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Time.
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Time. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Klein, Wolfgang, 1946 February 3-
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Li, Ping, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Expression of time. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110195811 (DLC) 2009004485 (OCoLC)301948642 |
| ISBN |
9783110199031 (electronic book) |
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3110199033 (electronic book) |
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1282425730 |
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9781282425736 |
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9783110195811 (hardback) |
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311019581X (hardback) |
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9783110195828 (paperback) |
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3110195828 (paperback) |
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