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Author: Aleksandar Jokić
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780262600507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
Author: Robert I. Binnick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 019506206X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.
Author: Paul Chilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1107010136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Author: Maria Aloni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 1239
ISBN-13: 131655273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.
Author: Peter Ludlow
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999-09-03
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780262263474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called "presentism"), there are no past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now. Ludlow argues that each metaphysical picture is tied to a particular semantical theory of tense and that the dispute can be adjudicated on semantical grounds. A presentism-compatible semantics, he claims, is superior to a B-theory semantics in a number of respects, including its abilities to handle the indexical nature of temporal discourse and to account for facts about language acquisition. Along the way, Ludlow develops a conception of "E-type" temporal anaphora that can account for both temporal anaphora and complex tenses without reference to past and future events. His view has philosophical consequences for theories of logic, self-knowledge, and memory. As for linguistic consequences, Ludlow suggests that the very idea of grammatical tense may have to be dispensed with and replaced with some combination of aspect, modality, and evidentiality.
Author: Wallace Chafe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1108421172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.
Author: Alfred Schopf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3111358364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Author: Östen Dahl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 311019709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 854
ISBN-13: 3110199882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice. The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules. The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context. The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials. Original data is used frequently throughout the book to illustrate the theory discussed.
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-06-06
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780521281386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernard Comrie introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world.
