LEADER 04615nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910145588003321 005 20170815111923.0 010 $a1-281-32144-3 010 $a9786611321444 010 $a0-470-75925-9 010 $a0-470-75922-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000408615 035 $a(EBL)351591 035 $a(OCoLC)437218815 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000229283 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000229283 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167955 035 $a(PQKB)10363881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC351591 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000408615 100 $a20040720d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe proper treatment of events$b[electronic resource] /$fMichiel van Lambalgen and Fritz Hamm 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 1 $aExplorations in semantics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-1212-3 311 $a1-4051-1213-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index. 327 $aThe 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 Models 327 $a5 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 Tense 327 $a4 Past Tense5 Future Tense; Exercises; 9 Tense in French: Passe? Simple and Imparfait; 1 Introduction; 2 Data; 3 Formalizing the Passe? 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 Types 327 $a4 Nominalizations Formalized II: Lexical MeaningExercises; Appendix: The Basics of Logic Programming; 1 Logic Programming for Propositional Logic; 2 Logic Programming for Predicate Logic; References; Index 330 $aThe Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science accompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students 410 0$aExplorations in semantics. 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTense 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xAspect 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNominals 606 $aLogic 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTense. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xAspect. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNominals. 615 0$aLogic. 676 $a415.6 676 $a415/.6 700 $aLambalgen$b Michiel van$f1954-$0723767 701 $aHamm$b Fritz$f1953-$0734299 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910145588003321 996 $aThe proper treatment of events$92201541 997 $aUNINA