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This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Tense, aspect, and Aktionsart; Chapter 3 Topic time; Chapter 4 Time structure; Chapter 5 Inherent temporal features of the lexical content; Chapter 6 Aspect; Chapter 7 Tense; Chapter 8 Temporal adverbials and their meaning; Chapter 9 The function of positional adverbials in the utterance; Chapter 10 Adverbials of duration and of frequency; Chapter 11 Non-declarative clauses, subordinate clauses, noun phrases;

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/15/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780415869560, 978-0415869560
      ISBN10: 0415869560
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to concentrate on tense and aspect, rather than discourse principles. Klein considers the four main ways in which language expresses time - the verbal categories of tense and aspect; inherent lexical features of the verb; and various types of temporal adverbs. Klein looks at the interaction of these four devices and suggests new or partly new treatments of these devices to express temporality.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Tense, aspect, and Aktionsart; Chapter 3 Topic time; Chapter 4 Time structure; Chapter 5 Inherent temporal features of the lexical content; Chapter 6 Aspect; Chapter 7 Tense; Chapter 8 Temporal adverbials and their meaning; Chapter 9 The function of positional adverbials in the utterance; Chapter 10 Adverbials of duration and of frequency; Chapter 11 Non-declarative clauses, subordinate clauses, noun phrases;

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