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Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2008

By Singh , Rajendra

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2008
ISBN
3110208296, 9783110208290
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1112544 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Edition
1
Pages
326\335
Time added
2016-10-23 08:44:38

Description

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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