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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klein, Wolfgang, 1946 February 3-, Li, Ping, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Colección:Expression of cognitive categories ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Wolfgang Klein and Ping Li
  • Concepts of time / Wolfgang Klein
  • How time is encoded / Wolfgang Klein
  • Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language: the case of Yucatec / Jürgen Bohnemeyer
  • Tenses in compositional semantics / Arnim von Stechow
  • Temporality in first and second language acquisition / Yasuhiro Shirai
  • New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages / Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll and Wolfgang Klein
  • Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations / Carol J. Madden and Todd R. Ferretti
  • Computational modeling of the expression of time / Ping Li and Xiaowei Zhao.