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The Expression of Time

The Expression of Time

Klein, Wolfgang
Li, Ping

Hardcover

Series: Expression of Cognitive Categories [Ecc], Book 3

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 311019581X
ISBN13: 9783110195811
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Mar 18 2009
Pages: 283
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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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