Temporality: Universals and Variation (Hardcover)
Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past,present,and future events,through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English,tense-aspect-based Polish,aspect-based Chinese,and mood-based Kalaallisut.Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tenseNew in-depth analysis of temporal,aspectual,modal,as well as nominal discourse reference