Title: Semantics, tense, and time
Description: "According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time.

According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called "presentism"), there are no past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar, Tense, Language and languages, Time, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Semantics, Natural language processing (computer science), First philosophy, Sémantique, Langage et langues, Philosophie, Temps, Métaphysique, Temps (Linguistique), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, Tijd, Semantiek, Metafysica, Languages & Literatures, Philology & Linguistics