The time window of language : the interaction between linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge in the temporal interpretation of German and English texts /

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Die innovative Arbeit untersucht, wie Zeitkonzepte sprachlich ausgedrückt (konzeptualisiert) werden. Dabei werden sowohl grammatische als auch außersprachliche (ontologische) Aspekte mit einbezogen. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Begründung einer formal-semantischen Theorie temporaler Informationen, die...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trautwein, Martin, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2005]
Colección:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 2.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions.
Semantics.
Discourse analysis.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect.
Temporalité (Linguistique)
Sémantique.
Aspect (Linguistique)
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Discourse analysis
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions
Semantics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • I. Temporality in Language: From Lexical Meaning to Text
  • Interpretation
  • 1. The Association and Dissociation of Semantic Meaning and (Con)Textual Interpretation
  • 2. The Ambiguity of Temporal Information in Texts
  • II. Time and Temporal Structure: a Conceptual Analysis
  • 1. The Origins of Temporal Structure
  • 1.1 General Remarks on Time and Temporal Structure
  • 1.2 Natural Situations
  • 1.3 The Pragmatic View: Natural Situations as Ontological Commitments
  • 2. Temporal Interpretation in Interval Semantics
  • 2.1 Evaluation Relative to Intervals of Time2.2 Some Conclusions from Interval Semantics, Concerning Temporal Interpretation and the Sequencing of Situations
  • 3. Objections to Interval-Based Theories
  • 3.1 Natural Situations as Contexts: From Natural Situations to Possible Propositions
  • 3.2 Natural Situations as Truth-makers: From Propositions to Possible Referents
  • 4. Establishing Times
  • 4.1 Indeterminate Structures in the Domain of Physical Objects: a Parallelism
  • 4.2 Consequences for the Informativeness of Sortal Concepts
  • 4.3 Establishing Features
  • 4.4 The Underspecification of Verbal Semantics5. Summary and Conclusions: Establishing Features, Temporal Relations, and Temporal Sequencing
  • III. A Methodological Framework Combining Formal Semantics and Formal Knowledge Representation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Two-Level Semantics
  • 3. Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Semantics
  • 4. The Five-Level Approach: a Unified Framework for the Representation of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge
  • 4.1 The Five-Level Approach to Knowledge Representation
  • 4.2 A Five-Level Representation of Temporal Interpretation5. Extemalism â€? Internalism, Pragmatism â€? Realism: Some Remarks On the Role of Ontology
  • IV. Ontological and Epistemological Conditions on Temporal Reference
  • 1. Epistemological Presumptions
  • 1.1 Epistemology vs. Ontology
  • 1.2 Partiality
  • 1.3 Heuristics
  • 2. A Formal Ontology of Time and Temporal Structure
  • 2.1 The Ontologically Basic Assumptions of GOL
  • 2.2 Mereology
  • 2.3 Chronology
  • 3. Ontological and Epistemological Extensions
  • 3.1 Partial Structures, Representative Partial Structures, and Establishing Parts and Times3.2 Chronological Relations Applying to Partial Structures and Their Elements
  • 4. Partial Temporal Relations: Reasoning with Partial Structures
  • 4.1 Approaches to Temporal Reasoning With Incomplete Knowledge
  • 4.2 Translating Boundedness and Sequence of Partial Structures into Partial Interval Relations
  • 4.3 Definitions and Relation Hierarchies for Partial Temporal Relations
  • 5. Conclusions

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