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The expression of time / / edited by Wolfgang Klein, Ping Li



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Titolo: The expression of time / / edited by Wolfgang Klein, Ping Li Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina: 415
415.0000000000
Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Temporal constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense
Tense (Logic)
Time
Classificazione: 17.52
Altri autori: KleinWolfgang <1946 Feb. 3->  
LiPing <1962->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Concepts of time -- How time is encoded -- Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language -- Tenses in compositional semantics -- Temporality in first and second language acquisition -- New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages -- Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations -- Computational modeling of the expression of time -- Back matter
Sommario/riassunto: 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 a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. Its chapters take the reader through a number of foundational issues, such as the various notions of time and the various means to express it; other chapters are devoted to more specific questions, such as the acquisition of time, its
Titolo autorizzato: The expression of time  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-173695-4
1-282-42573-0
9786612425738
3-11-019903-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809358703321
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Serie: Expression of cognitive categories ; ; 3.