{"product_id":"the-proper-treatment-of-events-9781405112123","title":"The Proper Treatment of Events","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect that is motivated by cognitive considerations. This book discusses a theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches. It is suitable for students in theoretical linguists, philosophy of language, and cognitive science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...an essential book for linguistics students and researchers interested in the latest trends.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Linguist List\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book presents a highly innovative approach to the semantics of natural language. The authors manage with admirable ease to draw together insights from different fields and show how their theory can actually explain facts rather than simply assuming them. This is not a trivial achievement: to derive even the most simple sounding conclusion requires a lot of effort. This book is a truly intellectual book, written with love for the subject. I consider it a must for everyone who is interested in events or natural language semantics in general.” \u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin of Symbolic Logic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This fine book is a welcome addition to the Explorations in Semantics series. The coverage of the very complex literature in the area is very good. Content, style, and presentation are all excellent, and tutorial exercises of the kind appropriate for use as a basis for a graduate seminar are included.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Steedman, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This elegant book redefines the traditional study of temporal reasoning. Merging insights from cognitive science, computer science, and linguistics, the authors propose an event calculus for natural language that is computationally tractable and logically appealing. This original synthesis of AI and linguistic semantics feels like a natural fit from the start.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohan van Benthem,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStanford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This volume helps to bring the study of tense and aspect, and the correlative study of events in linguistic semantics, within the purview of algorithmic conceptions of meaning, and other notions derived from abstract computer science. It will be an important companion to classical logical and syntactic studies, contributing to what we may hope will be an eventual unification of the computational and classical viewpoints.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Higginbotham,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSouthern California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Michiel van Lambalgen and Fritz Hamm have written a magnificent book on semantics of temporal discourse in natural languages... Their book introduces and applies an important new tool of philosophical analysis, and thus should be available in any good, analytically oriented philosophical library.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eErkenntnis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003et I: Time, events and cognition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychology of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy do we have the experience of time at all?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Events and time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe analogy between events and objects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Russell-Kamp construction of time from events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalker’s construction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRicher languages for events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome linguistic applications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e**Continuous time from events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Language, time and planning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The formal apparatus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Events formalized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA calculus of events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe axiom system EC.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScenarios.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinimal models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Computing with time and events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic programming with constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinimal models revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to get to the other side of a street.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e**When do causes take effect?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises for chapters 4 and 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDa capo, with feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Finishing touches.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoding VPs as fluents and events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsistency, truth and partiality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: A marriage made in he\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaven – linguistics and robotics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Aktionsart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEventualities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormal definition of \u003ci\u003eAktionsarten.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfective and imperfective eventualities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Tense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReichenbach’s reference time R.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvent time and the sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresent tense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePast tense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFuture tense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Tense in French: Passé Simple and Imparfait.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eData.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalizing the Passé Simple and Imparfait.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Grammatical aspect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe progressive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e**A computational proof.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComments on the literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Coercion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditive coercion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubtractive coercion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCross–coercion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTemporal adverbials: ‘in’ and ‘for’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoercion and intensionality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Nominalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo types of English Gerunds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory of the English gerundive system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNominalizations formalized I: Denotation types.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNominalizations formalized II: Lexical meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Appendix: the basics of logic programming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic programming for propositional logic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic programming for predicate logic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359384600919,"sku":"9781405112123","price":44.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405112123.jpg?v=1754124495","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-proper-treatment-of-events-9781405112123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}