The proper treatment of events [[electronic resource] /] / Michiel van Lambalgen and Fritz Hamm

• Autore: Lambalgen Michiel van <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 415.6; 415/.6
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect; Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals; Logic
• Altri autori: HammFritz <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Models ; 5 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 ; 4 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 Types ; 4 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The proper treatment of events
• ISBN: 1-281-32144-3; 9786611321444; 0-470-75925-9; 0-470-75922-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201978803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Explorations in semantics.