The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages …
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The prominence of tense, aspect and mood
by Bhat, D.N.S
fromStudies in language companion series
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The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages …
The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we us…
The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we us…
Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the f…
This volume consists of articles based on contributions to a symposium entitled "Tense and Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics" which was held on the U.C.L.A. campus in May, 1979. The participants were linguists, sharing some common assumptions about language in its relatio…
This volume consists of articles based on contributions to a symposium entitled "Tense and Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics" which was held on the U.C.L.A. campus in May, 1979. The participants were linguists, sharing some common assumptions about language in its relatio…
Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from a…
