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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: 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: 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: Douglas Biber
Publisher:
Published: 2003-06-10
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9784342100321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimplified and reorganized, while avoiding much of the technical detail of Longman grammar of spoken and written English (LGSWE).
Author: Robert I. Binnick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 0195381971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
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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: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 1412
ISBN-13: 1107354587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author: Wolfgang Klein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1136151729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.
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: Wolfgang Klein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 3110199033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime 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 modelling in formal semantics and in computational linguistics, or how its expression can be empirically investigated.
