The Expression of Time / Edition 1

by Wolfgang Klein, Ping Li

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110195811
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	03/18/2009
Series:	The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC] , #3
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction Wolfgang Klein Ping Li 1

Concepts of time Wolfgang Klein 5

How time is encoded Wolfgang Klein 39

Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language: the case of Yucatec Jürgen Bohnemeyer 83

Tenses in compositional semantics Arnim Von Stechow 129

Temporality in first and second language acquisition Yasuhiro Shirai 167

New Perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages Christiane von Stutterheim Mary Carroll Wolfgang Klein 195

Verb aspect and the mental representation of situations Carol J. Madden Todd R. Ferretti 217

Computational modeling of the expression of time Ping Li Xiaowei Zhao 241

Contributors 273

Index 275