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Semantics, Tense, and Time

Author : Peter Ludlow
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263474
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Semantics, Tense, and Time written by Peter Ludlow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called "presentism"), there are no past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now. Ludlow argues that each metaphysical picture is tied to a particular semantical theory of tense and that the dispute can be adjudicated on semantical grounds. A presentism-compatible semantics, he claims, is superior to a B-theory semantics in a number of respects, including its abilities to handle the indexical nature of temporal discourse and to account for facts about language acquisition. Along the way, Ludlow develops a conception of "E-type" temporal anaphora that can account for both temporal anaphora and complex tenses without reference to past and future events. His view has philosophical consequences for theories of logic, self-knowledge, and memory. As for linguistic consequences, Ludlow suggests that the very idea of grammatical tense may have to be dispensed with and replaced with some combination of aspect, modality, and evidentiality.

The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131655273X
Total Pages : 1327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 1327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.

Word Meaning and Montague Grammar

Author : D. R. Dowty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400994737
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Meaning and Montague Grammar by : D. R. Dowty

Download or read book Word Meaning and Montague Grammar written by D. R. Dowty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the rigorously formalized syntactic and semantic framework for the analysis of natural languages developed by Richard Montague and his associates, a framework in which truth and denotation with respect to a model are taken as the fundamental semantic notions. I hope to show, both from the linguist's and the philosopher's point of view, not only why this synthesis can be undertaken but also why it will be useful to pursue it. On the one hand, the linguists' decompositions of word meanings into more primitive parts are by themselves inherently incomplete, in that they deal only in distinctions in meaning without providing an account of what mean ings really are. Not only can these analyses be made complete by a model theoretic semantics, but also such an account of these analyses renders them more exact and more readily testable than they could ever be otherwise.

Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Louis de Saussure
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110195255
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Time and the Verb

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345134
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Time and the Verb written by Robert I. Binnick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-20 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured.

Individuals in Time

Author : María J. Arche
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233586
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Individuals in Time written by María J. Arche and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded, this book claims, as it examines current theoretical issues concerning the syntax/semantics interface such as the relation between semantic properties of predicates and their syntactic structure. By using the contrast found in Spanish copular clauses (ser vs. estar), Individuals in Time shows that the conception of IL predicates as permanent and stative cannot be maintained. The existence of nonstative IL predicates is demonstrated through analyzing the correlation between the syntactic presence of certain projections (specifically, prepositional complements) and process-like aspect properties. This detailed examination of IL predicates in the domains of inner aspect, outer aspect, and tense will be welcomed by scholars and students with an interest in event structure, tense, and aspect.

Inquisitive Semantics

Author : Ivano Ciardelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019881478X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Inquisitive Semantics written by Ivano Ciardelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book presents a new logical framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical investigations are usually carried out in a logical framework that was originally designed to characterize valid argumentation. However, argumentation is neither the sole, nor the primary function of language. One task that language more widely and ordinarily fulfils is to enable the exchange of information between conversational participants. In the framework outlined in this volume, inquisitive semantics, information exchange is seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitive semantics provides a new formal notion of meaning, which makes it possible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis of linguistic information exchange in a more refined and more principled way than has been possible in previous frameworks. Importantly, it also allows an integrated treatment of statements and questions. The first part of the book presents the framework in detail, while the second demonstrates its benefits in the semantic analysis of questions, coordination, modals, conditionals, and intonation. The book will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and logic.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195381971
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect written by Robert I. Binnick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Time and Modality

Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402083548
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Time and Modality written by Jacqueline Guéron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.

The Grammar of the English Tense System

Author : Renaat Declerck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311018589X
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Grammar of the English Tense System by : Renaat Declerck

Download or read book The Grammar of the English Tense System written by Renaat Declerck and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a four-volume series, "The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase", this book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax written by Marcel den Dikken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Time, Tense, and Reference

Author : Aleksandar Jokić
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600507
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Time, Tense, and Reference written by Aleksandar Jokić and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.

Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

Author : J. Curthoys
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137029250
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics written by J. Curthoys and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals.

Language and Time

Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107043808
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Language and Time written by Vyvyan Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.

Towards a Semantics of Linguistic Time

Author : Johan Nordlander
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Semantics of Linguistic Time written by Johan Nordlander and published by Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar

Author : Eystein Dahl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004178147
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar by : Eystein Dahl

Download or read book Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar written by Eystein Dahl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.

Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Louis de Saussure
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198762
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by : Louis de Saussure

Download or read book Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality written by Louis de Saussure and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concerns virtually any part of the sentence and this information has scope over the whole characterization of the eventuality denoted by the sentence. This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics, but with incidental hints to pragmatics and theories of human natural language understanding. Through this very tight selection of 15 papers (originally delivered during the 6th Chronos colloquium), tenses, aspect and modality are investigated both at the descriptive and theoretical levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The volume sheds light on a wide array of phenomena that remained too little explored until now. These include the following: modal subordination in Japanese, epistemic modals in Dutch and English in Free Indirect Speech contexts, aspectual readings of idioms, adverb-licensing with the German perfect, French imperfective past compared with English progressive past, infinitival perfect in English, Adult Root Infinitives, economy constraints on temporal subordinations, future modality, past interpretation of present tense in embedded clauses, and time without tenses in Mandarin and Navajo. The book is of interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of linguistics (general linguistics, semantics, syntax) as well as philosophy and logic.