This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic

"This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experi

Linguists and philosophers examine the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, and conte

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Staint