The expression of time / edited by Wolfgang Klein, Ping Li.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Wolfgang, 1946 February 3-

Li, Ping, 1962-

Series:

Expression of cognitive categories ; 3.

The expression of cognitive categories ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Tense (Logic).

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Concepts of time

How time is encoded

Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language

Tenses in compositional semantics

Temporality in first and second language acquisition

New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages

Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations

Computational modeling of the expression of time

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612425738

9783111736952

3111736954

9781282425736

1282425730

9783110199031

3110199033

OCLC:

647779850