It is commonly assumed that we conceive of the past and the future as symmetrical. In this book, Fabrizio Cariani develops a new theory of future-directed discourse and thought that shows that our linguistic and philosophical conceptions of the past...Loe edasi...
Anna ermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård, Sylvi Rørvik
Sari: Studies in Corpus Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Sep-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027209689)
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108474771)
The authors overarching theme of the book is the thesis that thought and talk about the future is modal. The linguistic aspect of this thesis is that the meanings and contents of future-directed claims, like the water will boil are best understoo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Feb-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110668247)
One hot topic in contemporary linguistics concerns how we express the passage of time in natural language. In particular, interesting questions have been raised as to how formerly understudied languages fit into deep-rooted theoretical frameworks,...Loe edasi...
This book introduces performed oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, as well as broader questions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110766080)
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Objektivierung des praktisch nutzbaren Wissens über das Zeitphänomen, das sich historisch in den lexikalischen, grammatischen und textuellen Formen für Zeit in der natürlichen Sprache angesammelt und erhalten hat. Da...Loe edasi...
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the...Loe edasi...
This 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027223968)
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyze...Loe edasi...
Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense-- Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in...Loe edasi...
Representing the culmination of fifteen years of research by the author, Temporality: Universals and Variation surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events and how these referents are related to the...Loe edasi...
This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces,...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and 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...Loe edasi...
Time 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 di...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics No. 27
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199544325)
This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional...Loe edasi...
