Maria Bittner

Temporality (eBook, PDF)

Universals and Variation

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Produktbeschreibung

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'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118584019
• Artikelnr.: 40614710

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xiii Glosses xv Introduction 1 Part I
Semantic Universals 13 1 Direct Semantic Composition 15 1.1 Simple Type
Logic (TL0) 16 1.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English 17 1.3 Dynamic Type Logic
(DL0) 23 1.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English 27 1.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of
English-Based Logics 34 2 Nominal Reference with Centering 41 2.1 Center v.
Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists 42 2.2 Kalaallisut Third Person
Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 48 2.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as
Top-Level Anaphora 53 2.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora
57 2.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0) 61 3 Tense as Temporal Centering
67 3.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 68 3.2 Polish
Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 69 3.3 English Tenses as Temporal
(In)definites 73 3.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 78 3.5
UC0 with Temporal Centering (UCtau) 85 4 Aspect as Eventuality Centering 93
4.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections 94 4.2 Mandarin Aspect Features
v. Particles 101 4.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries 108 4.4 UCtau with
Mereology (UCtau+) 112 5 Quantification as Reference to Sets 118 5.1
Nominal Quantification and Anaphora 119 5.2 Nominal Quantification and
Temporal Reference 127 5.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora 130 5.4
UCtau+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCtau?a) 134 6 Mood as
Illocutionary Centering 142 6.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative
Recentering 143 6.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference 146
6.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents 150 6.4 Dependent
Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering 157 6.5 UCdelta?a with Illocutionary
Referents (UCepsilon!?a) 160 7 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports 166
7.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited 167 7.2 At-Issue
Reports with Finite Complements 174 7.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite
Complements 179 7.4 UC: Combining UCtau?a and UCepsilon!?a 185 Part II
Temporal Variation 191 8 Tense-Based Temporality in English 193 8.1
Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 194 8.2 Indexical Non-Past
with(out) Recentering Aspect 200 8.3 Reports: Speaker's View of Subject's
(Non-)Past 203 8.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts 206 8.5
A CG.UC Fragment of English 209 9 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish
219 9.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective 220 9.2 Relative Non-Past
(Im)perfective 226 9.3 Reports: Subject's (Non-)Past 230 9.4
Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives 233 9.5 A CG.UC Fragment of
Polish 237 10 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin 246 10.1 Non-Future:
Verifiable Topic State 247 10.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment
253 10.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment 257 10.4
Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment 260 10.5 A CG.UC
Fragment of Mandarin 262 11 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut 272 11.1
Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities 273 11.2 Future: Verifiable
Eventualities with Future c-Points 278 11.3 Reports: Verifiability from
Agent's Perspective 282 11.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits 287 11.5 A
CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut 290 Conclusion 298 Bibliography 308 Author
Index 319 Subject Index 323

Rezensionen

"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, U