The Time Window of Language

Focusing on English and German examples, the study deals with the temporal interpretation of texts in non-aspect languages. The author presumes that a coherent interpretation of a text results from a complex interaction between linguistic and extra-linguistic information. The study presents a unified account of the semantics of temporality which treats the varying grammatical factors (aspectual classes, tense, and discourse structure) in a systematic way.

Martin Trautwein is a researcher at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science of the University of Leipzig, Germany.

"[...] eine Studie auf hohem theoretischem Niveau [...]."
Michael Schreiber in: Germanistik 3-4/2007