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Representing Time
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Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-26
Representing Time written by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come from? Are they basic concepts or are they composed out of more primitive constituents? And, finally, what is the semantics of expressions with temporal reference? This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance. She presents theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages to show that speakers represent the past, present, and future as degrees of epistemic modality. She argues that temporality can be subsumed under the general label of acceptability or attitude and, rather like the semantic category of evidentiality, founded on the strength of evidence. In the approach she develops, modality provides basic conceptual building blocks for the concept of time and at the same time semantic building blocks for representing temporal expressions in her framework of Default Semantics. Dr Jaszczolt sets the results of her research in the context of linguistic and philosophical work in semantics and pragmatics.
Representing Time
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Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009
Representing Time written by Katarzyna Jaszczolt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance.
Representing Time In Natural Language
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Author : Alice G. B. ter Meulen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1997
Representing Time In Natural Language written by Alice G. B. ter Meulen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to reason about the flow of time, inferring the order in which events happened when this is not explicitly stated. A new representational system is designed to formalize an appropriately context-dependent notion of situated inference. The Dynamic Aspect Tree, representing temporal dependencies, constitutes a novel and important dynamic temporal logic, one that makes it easy to see "what follows when" from the information given in an ordinary English text.
Representing Time
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Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2009
Representing Time written by Katarzyna Jaszczolt and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance.
Representing Time In Natural Language
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Author : Alice G. B. ter Meulen
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1995
Representing Time In Natural Language written by Alice G. B. ter Meulen and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Representing Time in Natural Language offers a systematic and detailed account of how we use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to reason about the flow of time, inferring the order in which events happened when this is not explicitly stated. A new representational toolkit is designed to formalize an appropriately context-dependent notion of situated inference. Dynamic Aspect Trees representing temporal dependencies constitute a novel and important dynamic temporal logic that makes it easy to see what follows when from the information given in an ordinary English text. Ter Meulen makes use of some of the fundamental assumptions of Situation Semantics and incorporates the dynamic methodology embodied in Discourse Representation Theory and in other dynamic logics into her temporal logic. The result is a computational inference system that can be applied across the board to fragments of natural languages.
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns
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Author : Tracey Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns written by Tracey Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Mathematics categories.
Provides units to help students explore a variety of timeline representations and mathematical patterns expressed in rhythms.
The Images Of Time
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Author : Robin Le Poidevin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-09-27
The Images Of Time written by Robin Le Poidevin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. These apparently disparate questions all concern the ways in which we represent aspects of time, in thought, experience, art and fiction. They also raise fundamental problems for our philosophical understanding, both of mental representation, and of the nature of time itself. Le Poidevin brings together issues in philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, and literary theory in examining the mechanisms underlying our representation of time in various media, and brings these to bear on metaphysical debates over the real nature of time. These debates concern which aspects of time are genuinely part of time's intrinsic nature, and which, in some sense, are mind-dependent. Arguably, the most important debate concerns time's passage: does time pass in reality, or is the division of events into past, present, and future simply a reflection of our temporal perspective - a result of the interaction between a 'static' world and minds capable of representing it? Le Poidevin argues that, contrary to what perception and memory lead us to suppose, time does not really pass, and this surprising conclusion can be reconciled with the characteristic features of temporal experience.
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns
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Author : Tracey Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-05
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns written by Tracey Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Investigations In Number Data And Space Timelines And Rhythm Patterns Representing Time
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Investigations In Number Data And Space Timelines And Rhythm Patterns Representing Time written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Mathematics categories.
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns
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Author : Tracey Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-05
Timelines And Rhythm Patterns written by Tracey Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05 with Mathematics categories.