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1 online resource |
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Oxford studies of time in language and thought ; 2 |
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Oxford studies of time in language and thought ; 2.
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Cover; Future Times, Future Tenses; Copyright; Contents; General preface; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; 1: Future tense vs. future time: An introduction; 1.1: THE VIEW FROM 'TRADITIONAL' LINGUISTICS; 1.2: FROM PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS TO LINGUISTIC HYPOTHESES; 1.3: IS THE FUTURE TENSE A GENUINE LINGUISTIC CATEGORY?; 1.4: THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE; 1.5: OVERVIEW OF THE VOLUME; 1.6: OUTLINE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS; 1.7: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 2: Talking about the future: Unsettled truth and assertion; 2.1: INTRODUCTION: FUTURE CONTINGENTS IN BRANCHING TIME FRAMEWORKS |
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2.1.1: THE OPEN FUTURE ACCOUNT2.1.2: THE THIN RED LINE ACCOUNT; 2.1.3: THE SUPERVALUATIONIST ACCOUNT; 2.1.4: THE PEIRCEAN ACCOUNT; 2.2: EVALUATING FUTURE CONTINGENTS FOR TRUTH: HOW THE FOUR APPROACHES DIFFER; 2.3: ASSERTING FUTURE CONTINGENTS; 2.4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 3: The interpretation of indefinites in future tense sentences: A novel argument for the modality of will?; 3.1: INTRODUCTION; 3.2: STALNAKER'S ASYMMETRY; 3.3: MODAL SUBORDINATION IN KARTTUNEN-TYPE DISCOURSES; 3.4: NON-SPECIFIC INDEFINITE OR IGNORANCE OF THE REFERENT'S IDENTITY?; 3.5: FORMALIZATION OF THE PROPOSAL |
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3.5.1: THE SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK3.5.1.1 The model and the semantic metalanguage; 3.5.1.2 Openness of the world parameter; 3.5.2: VERBAL AND NOMINAL PREDICATES; 3.5.3: MODAL PREDICATES; 3.5.4: INDEFINITE NPS AND DISCOURSE-LEVEL DEFINITE PRONOUNS; 3.5.5: THE FUTURE AUXILIARY WILL; 3.5.6: STALNAKER'S ASYMMETRY EXPLAINED; 3.5.7: ANALYSIS OF KARTTUNEN-TYPE DISCOURSES; 3.6: THE STATUS OF THE SUPERVALUATIONAL MECHANISM AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS; 3.7: CONCLUSION; 3.8: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 4: Causal chains for futurates; 4.1: REPRESENTATION OF THE PLAN |
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4.1.1: PLANS ARE STATIVE EVENTUALITIES4.1.2: NATURAL FUTURATES AND TEMPORALLY DISTANT DIRECT EFFECTS; 4.2: A CAUSAL CHAIN ACCOUNT OF FUTURATES; 4.2.1: THE BOWLING BALL PROBLEM; 4.2.2: THE PRESUPPOSITION PROBLEM; 4.3: FUTURATES AND POSSIBLE WORLDS; 4.3.1: CETERIS PARIBUS AND HOMOGENEITY IN FUTURES AND FUTURATES; 4.3.2: CETERIS PARIBUS IS NOT THE SAME FOR FUTURES AND FUTURATES; 4.3.3: NON-HOMOGENEOUS CASES ARE NOT THE SAME FOR FUTURES AND FUTURATES; 4.4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 5: Future temporal reference in child language; 5.1: INTRODUCTION TO TEMPORAL SYSTEMS; 5.1.1: PURPOSE AND CONTEXT |
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5.1.2: TENSE (T), ASPECT (A), AND MODALITY (M) PROPERTIES OFTHE ET SYSTEM5.1.2.1 Tense in TAM; 5.1.2.2 Aspect in TAM; 5.1.2.3 Mood orModality; 5.1.3: EMERGENCE OFTHE ET SYSTEM IN CHRISTY'S ENGLISH; 5.2: PAST TIME REFERENCE; 5.2.1: DOES TENSE MORPHOLOGY CODE ASPECT IN CHILD LANGUAGE?; 5.2.1.1 The aspect before tense hypothesis; 5.2.1.2 Multifunctional affixes in Turkish; 5.2.1.3 Lexical aspect and tense-aspect morphology; 5.2.2: EVIDENCE FOR DEICTIC RELATIONSHIPS; 5.2.3: EVIDENCE FOR CONCEPTUAL TIME TRAVEL INTO THE PAST; 5.3: EMERGING FUTURE TIME REFERENCE |
| Summary |
This volume examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 22, 2014) |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brabanter, Philippe de, editor.
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Kissine, Mikhail, editor.
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Sharifzadeh, Saghie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191758294 |
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0191758299 |
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9780191668357 |
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0191668354 |
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