Tense, aspect, and indexicality / / James Higginbotham
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| Autore: |
Higginbotham James
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| Titolo: |
Tense, aspect, and indexicality / / James Higginbotham
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense | |
| Indexicals (Semantics) | |
| Semantics (Philosophy) | |
| Language and languages - Philosophy | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-254) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Tense, indexicality, and consequence -- On events in linguistic semantics -- Tensed thoughts -- Tensed second thoughts: comments on Richard -- Why is sequense of tense obligatory -- Anaphoric tense -- Accomplishments -- The English progressive -- The English perfect and the metaphysics of events -- Competence with demonstratives -- A plea for implicit anaphora -- Remembering, imagining and the first person. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tense, aspect, and indexicality |
| ISBN: | 1-282-38391-4 |
| 9786612383915 | |
| 0-19-156748-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820179203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; ; 26.