The Expression of Time (The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC], 3, Band 3)

ISBN 10: 3110195828 ISBN 13: 9783110195828

Verlag: De Gruyter, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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 of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Ping Li, Department of Psychology and the Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110195828
• ISBN 13: 9783110195828
• Einband: Broschiert
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
• Herausgeber: Klein
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: De Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland