The Proper Treatment of Events (Explorations in Semantics) - Softcover

Van Lambalgen, Michiel

 
9781405112123: The Proper Treatment of Events (Explorations in Semantics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405112123 ISBN 13: 9781405112123
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations.

  • offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches
  • written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science
  • accompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students

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About the Author

Michiel van Lambalgen is Professor of Logic and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam.


Fritz Hamm is Assistant Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen.

From the Back Cover

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. The book begins by presenting data about the human conceptualization of time, proposing that planning is important in this regard, and hence equally for the linguistic encoding of time as tense and aspect. It then introduces a formal theory of planning, a combination of an event calculus as developed in Artificial Intelligence with a truth theory and logic programming techniques. The combined system is then applied to detailed analyses of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect, coercion, and different types of nominalizations.

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The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations. The book begins by presenting data about the human conceptualization of time, proposing that planning is important in this regard, and hence equally for the linguistic encoding of time as tense and aspect. It then introduces a formal theory of planning, a combination of an event calculus as developed in Artificial Intelligence with a truth theory and logic programming techniques. The combined system is then applied to detailed analyses of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect, coercion, and different types of nominalizations.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1405112123
ISBN 13 
9781405112123
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264

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