Time Language, Cognition & Reality [Hardcover]

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all over the world examine and report on recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, temporal adverbials, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between events and states, as well as between facts, propositions, sentences, and utterances. They link this to current research on the cognitive processing of temporal reference, linguistic and philosophical semantics, psychology, and anthropology. The book is divided into three parts: Time, Tense, and Temporal Reference in Discourse; Time and Modality; and Cognition and Metaphysics of Time. It will interest scholars and advanced students of time and temporal reference in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science.

Introduction: Time, temporality, and tense,Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Louis de Saussure
Part I Time, Tense, and Temporal Reference in Discourse
1. Temporal modification,Nicholas Asher
2. Temporal reasoning as indexical inference,Alice ter Meulen
3. Perspectival interpretations of tenses,Louis de Saussure
Part II Time and Modality
4. Modal auxiliaries and tense: The case of Dutch,Pieter Byloo and Jan Nuyts
5. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the interaction of time and modality in French: An interval-based account,Laurent Gosselin
6. Modal conversational backgrounds and evidential bases in predictions: The view from the Italian modals,Andrea Rocci
Part III Cognition and Metaphysics of Time
7. Experience, thought, and the metaphysics of time,Simon Prosser
8. Tensism,Peter Ludlow
9. Temporality and epistemic commitment: An unresolved question,Kasia M. Jaszczolt
10. An account of English l39