Temporality

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Universals and Variation

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<p><i>Temporality</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li>Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense</li> <li>New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference</li> <li>Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering)</li> <li>Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of ‘grammatical centering systems’</li> </ul>