The Time Window of Language
The Interaction between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge in the Temporal Interpretation of German and English Texts, Language, Context and Cognition 2
Erschienen am
16.11.2005, 1. Auflage 2005
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783110182132
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: XX, 387 S., 60 s/w Illustr., 10 s/w Tab., 60 b/w i
Einband: gebundenes Buch
Beschreibung
Focusing on English and German examples, the study deals with the temporal interpretation of texts in non-aspect languages. The author presumes that a coherent interpretation of a text results from a complex interaction between linguistic and extra-linguistic information. The study presents a unified account of the semantics of temporality which treats the varying grammatical factors (aspectual classes, tense, and discourse structure) in a systematic way.
Autorenportrait
Martin Trautwein is a researcher at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
