Text, time, and context : selected papers of Carlota S. Smith

Text, time, and context selected papers of Carlota S. Smith

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Smith, who died in 2...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Carlota S. (-)
Otros Autores: Destruel, Emilie, Dry, Helen Aristar, 1946-, Meier, Richard P.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht ; London : Springer 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Colección:Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 87.
Materias:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions.
Linguistics.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009455075006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aspect
  • A Speaker-Based Approach to Aspect
  • Aspectual Categories in Navajo
  • Activities: States or Events?
  • Tense
  • The Syntax and Interpretation of Temporal Expressions in English
  • The Temporal Reference of the English Futurate
  • The Domain of Tense
  • Tense and Context in French
  • The Acquisition of Tense
  • The Acquisition of Time Talk: Relations Between Child and Adult Grammars
  • The Acquisition of Tense: Bootstrapping into Syntax
  • Discourse Structure and Discourse Modes
  • Sentences in Discourse: an Analysis of a Discourse by Bertrand Russell
  • The Vagueness of Sentences in Isolation
  • Temporal Structures in Discourse
  • Temporal Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
  • Context and Interpretation
  • Some Significant Omissions: Ellipses in Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple
  • Accounting for Subjectivity (Point of View).

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