The Language of Time

A Reader
ISBN13: 9780199268535ISBN10: 0199268533 Hardback, 600 pages

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This reader collects and introduces important work on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

Product Details

600 pages; 74 numbered figures & numerous diagrams; ISBN13: 978-0-19-926853-5ISBN10: 0-19-926853-3

About the Author(s)

Edited by Inderjeet Mani, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, James Pustejovsky, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation, Brandeis University, and Robert Gaizauskas, Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

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