04615nam 2200697 a 450 991014558800332120170815111923.01-281-32144-397866113214440-470-75925-90-470-75922-4(CKB)1000000000408615(EBL)351591(OCoLC)437218815(SSID)ssj0000229283(PQKBManifestationID)11219582(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000229283(PQKBWorkID)10167955(PQKB)10363881(MiAaPQ)EBC351591(EXLCZ)99100000000040861520040720d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe proper treatment of events[electronic resource] /Michiel van Lambalgen and Fritz HammMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.c20051 online resource (266 p.)Explorations in semanticsDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-1212-3 1-4051-1213-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.The Proper Treatment of Events; Contents; Figures; Preface; Part I Time, Events, and Cognition; 1 Time; 1 Psychology of Time; 2 Why Do We Have the Experience of Time at All?; 2 Events and Time; 1 The Analogy Between Events and Objects; 2 The Russell-Kamp Construction of Time from Events; 3 Walker's Construction; 4 Richer Languages for Events; 5 Some Linguistic Applications; 6 Continuous Time from Events; 7 Conclusion; 3 Language, Time, and Planning; Part II The Formal Apparatus; 4 Events Formalized; 1 A Calculus of Events; 2 The Axiom System EC; 3 Scenarios; 4 Minimal Models5 Computing with Time and Events1 Logic Programming with Constraints; 2 Minimal Models Revisited; 3 How to Get to the Other Side of a Street; 4 When Do Causes Take Effect?; 5 Da Capo, with Feeling; Exercises for Chapters 4 and 5; 6 Finishing Touches; 1 Coding VPs as Fluents and Events; 2 Consistency, Truth, and Partiality; Part III A Marriage Made in Heaven - Linguistics and Robotics; 7 Aktionsart; 1 Eventualities; 2 Formal Definition of Aktionsarten; 3 Perfective and Imperfective Eventualities; 8 Tense; 1 Reichenbach's Reference Time R; 2 Event Time and the Sentence; 3 Present Tense4 Past Tense5 Future Tense; Exercises; 9 Tense in French: Passé Simple and Imparfait; 1 Introduction; 2 Data; 3 Formalizing the Passé Simple and Imparfait; 4 Coda; Exercises; 10 Grammatical Aspect; 1 The Perfect; 2 The Progressive; 3 A Computational Proof; 4 Comments on the Literature; Exercises; 11 Coercion; 1 Additive Coercion; 2 Subtractive Coercion; 3 Cross-Coercion; 4 Temporal Adverbials: 'in' and 'for'; 5 Coercion and Intensionality; Exercises; 12 Nominalization; 1 Two Types of English Gerunds; 2 History of the English Gerundive System; 3 Nominalizations Formalized I: Denotation Types4 Nominalizations Formalized II: Lexical MeaningExercises; Appendix: The Basics of Logic Programming; 1 Logic Programming for Propositional Logic; 2 Logic Programming for Predicate Logic; References; IndexThe Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science accompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students Explorations in semantics.Grammar, Comparative and generalTenseGrammar, Comparative and generalAspectGrammar, Comparative and generalNominalsLogicElectronic books.Grammar, Comparative and generalTense.Grammar, Comparative and generalAspect.Grammar, Comparative and generalNominals.Logic.415.6415/.6Lambalgen Michiel van1954-723767Hamm Fritz1953-734299MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910145588003321The proper treatment of events2201541UNINA