Time in Natural Language : : Syntactic Interfaces with Semantics and Discourse / / Ellen Thompson.
Time in Natural Language investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the domain of tense. Assuming that tenses are semantically composed of three distinct times, Thompson proposes that these times map onto the syntax in a regular fashion: each...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interface Explorations [IE] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Time in Natural Language
- Chapter 2 The Structure of Time Adverbials
- Chapter 3 Adjunct Clauses and the Structural
- Representation of Simultaneity
- Chapter 4 The Temporal Syntax of Arguments: Reduced
- Relatives in Subject Position
- Chapter 5 Principles of Time in Discourse: Temporal
- Syntax beyond the Sentence
- Chapter 6 The Structure of Aspect
- Chapter 7 Syntax and Semantics of Aspectual
- Verbs
- Backmatter