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This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic framework. Arguments presented herein explicate the meanings of these expressions, and account for similarities and differences among them. Shared is a future-oriented model with a systematic alternation between inertial and bouletic ordering sources that provide a new way of understanding the age-old future Law of the Excluded Middle, evident in all of the future-referring expressions. A difference found among these meanings is the presence or absence of progressive- or generic-like aspect in a position higher than the future modal. These very high aspectual operators affect the temporal argument of the modal's accessibility relation, with detectable effects that can be used to determine scope relations in future conditionals. Copley's analysis thus addresses a number of issues of great interest to formal semanticists, from modal and aspectual semantics, to the mapping of functional elements in the clause, to the logical form of conditionals.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- #KVHA:Semantiek --- 801.56 --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Linguistics --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Semantics. --- Temporal constructions. --- Aspect. --- Syntax. --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Sémantique --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Aspect (linguistique) --- Syntaxe --- Temps (linguistique) --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Sémantique

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Aspect (linguistique).

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This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding both of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings in turn are organized into structures. Chapters address some of the most exciting current issues in the field, including the relata of causal relations; the representation of defeasible causation within verb phrases and at the level of modality; the difference between direct and indirect causal chains; and the representation of these chains in syntax.The book examines data from a wide variety of languages, such as Tohono O'odham, Finnish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Karachay-Balkar, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists, as well as psycholinguists and philosophers, from graduate level upwards.

Causation --- Linguistics --- Philosophy --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Language arts & disciplines

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Philosophie, sociologie, anthropologie, études littéraires, linguistique, histoire, géographie, psychologie, musicologie, esthétique, histoire de l’art, économie, sciences politiques, droit, archéologie… : les disciplines couvertes par les sciences humaines et sociales sont vastes et variées. À toutes incombent d’analyser, comprendre, décrire le monde et la façon dont les hommes, les femmes et plus largement le vivant l’ont habité, l’habitent et l’habiteront. Toutes partagent une réflexion sur un sujet rendu majeur par la crise environnementale, les bouleversements numériques, les inégalités sociales et les conflits : comment faire « monde commun », pour reprendre la formule de Hannah Arendt ? L’ouvrage propose une centaine de contributions portant sur des questions contemporaines, qui font écho aux objectifs de développement durable identifiés par l’Organisation des Nations unies (la réduction de la pauvreté, des inégalités éducatives, la protection de la planète, etc.) et explorent la manière dont la recherche actuelle en sciences humaines et sociales y répond. Méthodes, hypothèses et théorisations, mesures et approches ethnographiques, analyses et exégèses constituent autant d’outils permettant aux lecteurs de penser, d’habiter, de réparer ou de transformer nos univers communs. Un ouvrage richement illustré qui incarne une communauté de recherche dans toute sa diversité.

Humanities, Multidisciplinary --- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary --- sciences humaines et sociales --- monde --- questions contemporaines --- recherche