Temporality : Universals and Variation
(2014)

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[United States] : Wiley, 2014
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9781118584033 MWT18096926, 1118584031 18096926
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English
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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'

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