{"product_id":"temporality-isbn-9781405190404","title":"Temporality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTemporality\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of ‘grammatical centering systems’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlosses xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Semantic Universals 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Direct Semantic Composition 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Simple Type Logic (TL0) 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Dynamic Type Logic (DL0) 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of English-Based Logics 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Nominal Reference with Centering 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Center v. Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Kalaallisut Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as Top-Level Anaphora 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0) 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Tense as Temporal Centering 67\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Polish Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 English Tenses as Temporal (In)definites 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 UC0 with Temporal Centering (UCτ) 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Aspect as Eventuality Centering 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Mandarin Aspect Features v. Particles 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 UCτ with Mereology (UCτ+) 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Quantification as Reference to Sets 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Nominal Quantification and Anaphora 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Nominal Quantification and Temporal Reference 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 UCτ+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCτ?a) 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Mood as Illocutionary Centering 142\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative Recentering 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Dependent Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 UCδ?a with Illocutionary Referents (UCε!?a) 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 At-Issue Reports with Finite Complements 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite Complements 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 UC: Combining UCτ?a and UCε!?a 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Temporal Variation 191\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Tense-Based Temporality in English 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Indexical Non-Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Reports: Speaker’s View of Subject’s (Non-)Past 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 A CG.UC Fragment of English 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Relative Non-Past (Im)perfective 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Reports: Subject’s (Non-)Past 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Polish 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin 246\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Topic State 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Mandarin 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut 272\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Future: Verifiable Eventualities with Future c-Points 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Reports: Verifiability from Agent's Perspective 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Bittner \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eJournal of Semantics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSemantics \u0026amp; Pragmatics\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eCase, Scope, and Binding\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRepresenting the culmination of fifteen years of research by the author, \u003ci\u003eTemporality\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events and how these referents are related to the knowledge and attitudes of those involved in the dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour major language types are examined in depth: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. Each contributes to a series of logical representation languages, exemplifying four special cases of a common logical language which, Bittner argues, underlies all language types. The ways in which these four language types differ is in whether they choose to grammaticalize discourse reference to times (tense), events (aspect), and\/or attitudes (mood), and how non-grammaticalized elements are inferred.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe common logical language, according to Bittner, is a dynamic update logic, building on DRT and Centering Theory, but with a novel architecture. For example, the distinction between focal vs. peripheral attention plays a key role, parallel to focal vs. peripheral vision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis cutting-edge research is valuable for formal semanticists, philosophers of language, logicians, and computer scientists interested in cross-linguistic formal semantics, dynamic semantics, and direct semantic composition in Categorial Grammar.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e-Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Bittner combines insightful linguistic analysis of four very different languages with the construction of a logic, \u003ci\u003eUpdate with Centering\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eMark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990143451365,"sku":"NP9781405190404","price":106.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405190404.jpg?v=1761786668","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/temporality-isbn-9781405190404","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}