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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 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.

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Wolfgang Klein, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ping Li, Department of Psychology and the Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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    Contents

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    Introduction

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    Wolfgang Klein and Ping Li
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    Concepts of time

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    Wolfgang Klein
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    How time is encoded

    39
    Wolfgang Klein
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    Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language

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    Jürgen Bohnemeyer
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    Tenses in compositional semantics

    129
    Arnim Stechow
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    Temporality in first and second language acquisition

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    Yasuhiro Shirai
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    New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages

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    Christiane Stutterheim, Mary Carroll and Wolfgang Klein
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    Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations

    217
    Carol J. Madden and Todd R. Ferretti
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    Computational modeling of the expression of time

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    Ping Li and Xiaowei Zhao
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    Backmatter

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eBook published on:
March 26, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9783110199031
Hardcover published on:
March 18, 2009
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110195811
Paperback published on:
March 17, 2010
Paperback ISBN:
9783110195828
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278
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199031
eBook ISBN: 9783110199031
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110195811
Paperback ISBN: 9783110195828
Keywords for this book
Semantics; Cognitive Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Time
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Research Libraries, Teachers and Advanced Students of Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Psychology
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