The expression of time
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 tuto...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin New York
Mouton de Gruyter
[2009]
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| Series: | The expression of cognitive categories
3 |
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The expression of cognitive categories (3)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110199031 |
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| Author Notes: | edited by Wolfgang Klein, Ping Li |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter ; 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; Backmatter