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The Expression of Time (The Expression of Cognitive Categories)

By Ping Li , Wolfgang Klein

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
ISBN
3110195828, 9783110195828, 9783110195811
LCC
P294.5 .E97 2009
Open Library ID
OL23057783M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3375438 bytes)
Series
The Expression of Cognitive Categories
Edition
1
Pages
286\286
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on the various notions of time, their encoding in different languages, on the formal semantics, the computer modelling and the acquisition of temporality. It also includes chapters on the mental representation and on culture-specific perspectivation of time and event structure. It concludes with a comprehensive bibliography.

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