Title: Temporality Universals And Variation
Description: "Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of 'grammatical centering systems' "--

"Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense"--
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar, Temporal constructions, Linguistic universals, Language and languages, Variation, Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, comparative and general, English language, grammar, Polish language, Chinese language, Inuit language