Representing Time in Natural Language
Subtitle: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780262700665
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Philosophy of language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: Competent speakers of a natural language share an essential cognitive capacity to describe change in their world as consisting of certain events that took place and states that were the case.