Time, Tense, and Reference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time, Tense, and Reference write by Aleksandar Jokić. This book was released on 2003. Time, Tense, and Reference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
Time and the Verb
Time and the Verb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time and the Verb write by Robert I. Binnick. This book was released on 1991. Time and the Verb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.
Language, Space and Mind
Language, Space and Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Space and Mind write by Paul Chilton. This book was released on 2014-07-10. Language, Space and Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs
Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs write by Alfred Schopf. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Semantics, Tense, and Time
Semantics, Tense, and Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semantics, Tense, and Time write by Peter Ludlow. This book was released on 1999-09-03. Semantics, Tense, and Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
