Representing time : an essay on temporality as modality /

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Author / Creator:	Jaszczolt, Katarzyna.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford linguistics Oxford linguistics.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions. Modality (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions. Modality (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196195

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ISBN:	0199214433 9780199214433 0199214441 9780199214440 9780191550355 0191550353
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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. - ;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 mi.
Other form:	Print version: Jaszczolt, Katarzyna. Representing time. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 0199214433 9780199214433
Standard no.:	9786612126031

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