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Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: James Higginbotham
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-29 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural la
Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: James Higginbotham
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expres
The Grammar of the Utterance
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Alice Corr
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocative
Time, Tense, and Reference
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Aleksandar Jokić
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
The Roots of Verbal Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: John Beavers
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and