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Time : language, cognition, and reality / edited by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Louis de Saussure.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
- Oxford linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Linguists and philosophers examine the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between facts, events states, propositions, and utterances. They link this to current research in psychology and anthropology.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; General Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: time, temporality, and tense; Part I: Time, Tense, and Temporal Reference in Discourse; 1 Temporal modification; 2 Temporal reasoning as indexical inference; 3 Perspectival interpretations of tenses; Part II: Time and Modality; 4 Modal auxiliaries and tense: the case of Dutch; 5 Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the interaction of time and modality in French: an interval-based account; 6 Modal conversational backgrounds and evidential bases in predictions: the view from the Italian modals
- Part III: Cognition and Metaphysics of Time7 Experience, thought, and the metaphysics of time; 8 Tensism; 9 Temporality and epistemic commitment: an unresolved question; 10 An account of English tense and aspect in Cognitive Grammar; 11 Frames of reference and the linguistic conceptualization of time: present and future; References; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Aug 2, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-67441-0
- 0-19-165509-0
- OCLC:
- 850931045
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