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From space to time : temporal adverbials in the world's languages
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ISBN: 3895860913 9783895860911 Year: 1997 Volume: 3 Publisher: München ; Newcastle : LINCOM Europa,

A theory of aspectuality : the interaction between temporal and atemporal structure
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ISBN: 0521564522 Year: 1996 Volume: 64 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,


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Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality.
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ISBN: 9783110195255 Year: 2007 Volume: 185 Publisher: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter

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A book for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics. It investigates tenses, aspect and modality both at the theoretical and at the descriptive levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.

Aspectual grammar and past-time reference
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ISBN: 0415156785 9780415156783 9780203029985 9781134730025 9781134730063 9781134730070 9780415653602 0415653606 0203276051 0203029984 1280330805 9780203276051 1134730063 Year: 1998 Volume: 4 Publisher: London Routledge

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This study presents a semantic framework for analyzing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.

Representing time in natural language: the dynamic interpretation of tense and aspect
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ISBN: 0262284782 0585355339 9780585355337 9780262284783 9780262200998 0262200996 0262700662 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT

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Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to reason about the flow of time, inferring the order in which events happened when this is not explicitly stated. A new representational toolkit is designed to formalize an appropriately context-dependent notion of situated inference. Dynamic Aspect Trees representing temporal dependencies constitute a novel and important dynamic temporal logic that makes it easy to see what follows when from the information given in an ordinary English text. Ter Meulen makes use of some of the fundamental assumptions of Situation Semantics and incorporates the dynamic methodology embodied in Discourse Representation Theory and in other dynamic logics into her temporal logic. The result is a computational inference system that can be applied across the board to fragments of natural languages.


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Text, time, and context : selected papers of Carlota S. Smith.
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ISBN: 9789048126170 9789048126163 9048126169 9048126177 9400730721 9786612459658 1282459651 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Springer

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Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Smith, who died in 2007, was a trailblazer in her field whose broad interests fed into her scholarly research. Selected by Carlota Smith herself and by her longtime friends and colleagues, this book contains her 1980 piece on temporal structures in discourse, her 1986 comparison of the English and French aspectual systems, a 1996 paper on the aspect system in Navajo (an increasingly-endangered language which Smith worked to preserve), and her 1980 and 1993 papers on the child’s acquisition of tense and aspect. The current volume of articles covers much of her most fruitful work on the way in which language is used to express time, and will be essential reading for many working and studying in linguistics generally and in semantics particularly.

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