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Representing time : an essay on temporality as modality /
This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker'...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Collection: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance. - ;Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mi. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199214433 9780199214433 0199214441 9780199214440 9780191550355 0191550353 1282126032 9781282126039 9786612126031 6612126035 0191550361 9780191550362 |