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Representing Time


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


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


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.



Narrative Space And Time


Narrative Space And Time
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Author : Elana Gomel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-18

Narrative Space And Time written by Elana Gomel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.


Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity have passed into culture at large. This book examines whether narrative can be used to represent these "impossible" spaces. Impossible topologies abound in ancient mythologies, from the Australian Aborigines’ "dream-time" to the multiple-layer universe of the Sumerians. More recently, from Alice’s adventures in Wonderland to contemporary science fiction’s obsession with black holes and quantum paradoxes, counter-intuitive spaces are a prominent feature of modern and postmodern narrative. With the rise and popularization of science fiction, the inventiveness and variety of impossible narrative spaces explodes. The author analyses the narrative techniques used to represent such spaces alongside their cultural significance. Each chapter connects narrative deformation of space with historical problematic of time, and demonstrates the cognitive and perceptual primacy of narrative in representing, imagining and apprehending new forms of space and time. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between narratology, cultural theory, science fiction, and studies of place.



Mechanics And Engineers Pocketbook Of Tables


Mechanics And Engineers Pocketbook Of Tables
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Author : Charles Haynes Haswell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890

Mechanics And Engineers Pocketbook Of Tables written by Charles Haynes Haswell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Engineering categories.




Representing Plans Under Uncertainty


Representing Plans Under Uncertainty
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Author : Peter F. Haddawy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Representing Plans Under Uncertainty written by Peter F. Haddawy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Knowledge representation (Information theory) categories.


The language can represent the chance that facts hold and events occur at various times. It can represent the chance that actions and other events affect the future. The model of action distinguishes between action feasibility, executability, and effects. Using this distinction, a notion of expected utility for acts that may not be feasible is defined. This notion is used to reason about the chance that trying a plan will achieve a given goal. An algorithm for the problem of building construction planning is developed and the logic is used to prove the algorithm correct."



Abstract Of The Proceedings Of The Liverpool Geological Society


Abstract Of The Proceedings Of The Liverpool Geological Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

Abstract Of The Proceedings Of The Liverpool Geological Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Geology categories.




Critical And Exegetical Hand Book To The New Testament


Critical And Exegetical Hand Book To The New Testament
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Author : Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

Critical And Exegetical Hand Book To The New Testament written by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Bible categories.




Professional Papers Of The Corps Of Royal Engineers


Professional Papers Of The Corps Of Royal Engineers
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Author : Institution of Royal Engineers (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

Professional Papers Of The Corps Of Royal Engineers written by Institution of Royal Engineers (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.




The Recent Origin Of Man


The Recent Origin Of Man
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Author : James Cocke Southall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

The Recent Origin Of Man written by James Cocke Southall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Archaeology categories.