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Times and TAME in Language

Author: Karina Veronica Molsing  

This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time.

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This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time.

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This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time. The authors include well-renowned researchers as well as new contributors to the field who present cutting-edge research on a variety of topics, ranging from the fundamental nature of time to formal approaches to specific tense-aspect structures as well as their interaction with other grammatical categories. This volume represents a valuable contribution to the field and will be of interest to scholars studying the representation of time in language as well as to syntacticians and semanticists in general.

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About the Author

Karina Veronica Molsing is a linguistic consultant and translator for the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the same university. Her thesis was on the semantics of the present perfect in Brazilian Portuguese (2010). Her research interests include interdisciplinary linguistic approaches to time, including cognitive and formal perspectives. More recently, she has worked in the area of corpus linguistics with a focus on academic discourse in Portuguese and syntactic and semantic interfaces with pragmatics.Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the same university. She also holds a post-doctorate on the syntax-semantics interface from the University of Maryland at College Park and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her main areas of research include linguistic theory and analysis with a focus on the topics of syntax, semantics, formal semantics, logic, inference and propositional attitudes.

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This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time. The authors include well-renowned researchers as well as new contributors to the field who present cutting-edge research on a variety of topics, ranging from the fundamental nature of time to formal approaches to specific tense-aspect structures as well as their interaction with other grammatical categories. This volume represents a valuable contribution to the field and will be of interest to scholars studying the representation of time in language as well as to syntacticians and semanticists in general.

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Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published
1st April 2013
Edition
1st
Pages
240
ISBN
9781443845250

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