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Representing Time in Natural Language: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect(A Bradford Book)


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This work integrates current research in natural language semantics with detailed analyses of English discourse and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars in linguistics, logical semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This book offers a systematic and detailed account of how we use temporal information contained in a text or in discourse to reason about the flow of time, inferring the order in which events happened when this is not explicitly stated. A new representational toolkit is designed to formalize an appropriately context-dependent notion of situated inference. Dynamic Aspect Trees representing temporal dependencies constitute a dynamic temporal logic that clarifies what follows when from the information given in an ordinary English text. The text makes use of some of the fundamental assumptions of Situation Semantics and incorporates the dynamic methodology embodied in Discourse Representation Theory and in other dynamic logics into its temporal logic. The result is a computational inference system that can be applied across the board to fragments of natural languages.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction: what are aspectual classes?; controlling the flow of information - filters, plugs and holes; situated reasoning about time. Part 2 The aspectual verbs: the linguistic data; negation and duality - the basic tools; monotonicity properties; the aspectual cube. Part 3 Dynamic aspect trees: aspect as control structure; DATs for texts; reasoning with DATs - chronoscopes; DATs - their syntax and semantics. Part 4 States, generic information and constraints: transient states; progressive and perfect states; generic information; conditionals and temporal quantification. Part 5 Perspectives: perspectival coherence and chronoscopes; perspectival refinement; perspectival binding; scenes and scenarios. Part 6 A fragment of English: syntax and lexicon; DAT rules; semantics; further issues. Part 7 Epilogue: cognition and semantic representation; referring with parameters; naturalized semantic realism and universal grammar.

About the Author :
Alice ter Meulen is a Professors of Linguistics at the University of Washington.

Review :
" Representing Time in Natural Language will become a standardreference for graduate students, researchers in linguistics, and alsofor computer scientists who are interested in representing time inknowledge bases and in natural-language understandingsystems. Finally, it will be of interest to philosophers of logic andlanguage who wish to understand the phenomena surrounding tense andaspect." Jeff Pelletier , University of Alberta


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262700665
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262700662
  • Publisher Date: 21 Aug 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: A Bradford Book
  • Sub Title: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect
  • Width: 152 mm


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