Temporality

Universals and Variation

Maria Bittner (Rutgers University, USA)

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Wiley-Blackwell
13 May 2014

Historical & comparative linguistics; Semantics

Series: Explorations in Semantics

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut.

Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of ‘grammatical centering systems’

By: Maria Bittner (Rutgers University USA)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781405190398
ISBN 10: 1405190396
Series: Explorations in Semantics
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 13 May 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maria Bittner is a Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Semantics and Semantics & Pragmatics. She is well known for her work on cross-linguistic formal semantics, dynamic semantics, and syntax-semantics interface, with special focus on Kalaallisut (Eskimo-Aleut: Greenland). Her early research in LF-based static semantics culminated in Case, Scope, and Binding (1994).

Reviews for Temporality: Universals and Variation

?By combining a genuinely non-partisan perspective on human languages with uncompromising formal rigor, Maria Bittner succeeds in separating what is particular to individual languages from what is truly universal to human language and thought. An unparalleled achievement and a milestone in the history of semantics.? -Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany ?Bittner combines insightful linguistic analysis of four very different languages with the construction of a logic, Update with Centering, tailored to their varied semantic and referential needs, and the definition of a grammar formalism according to which logical forms can be constructed compositionally directly from the surface forms of their sentences in context. Her book is a shining example of linguistics as a cognitive science, and will be read by computer scientists, psychologists, and linguists.? -Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK