The Proper Treatment of Events - Brossura

Van Lambalgen, Michiel

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ISBN 10: 1405112123 ISBN 13: 9781405112123

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Riassunto

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations.

• offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches
• written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science
• accompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michiel van Lambalgen is Professor of Logic and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Fritz Hamm is Assistant Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen.

Dalla quarta di copertina

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. The book begins by presenting data about the human conceptualization of time, proposing that planning is important in this regard, and hence equally for the linguistic encoding of time as tense and aspect. It then introduces a formal theory of planning, a combination of an event calculus as developed in Artificial Intelligence with a truth theory and logic programming techniques. The combined system is then applied to detailed analyses of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect, coercion, and different types of nominalizations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405112123
• ISBN 13: 9781405112123
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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