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The Proper Treatment of Events

ISBN: 978-0-470-75925-7

January 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

264 pages

Description

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations.

  • offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches
  • written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science
  • accompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students
About the Author
Michiel van Lambalgen is Professor of Logic and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam.


Fritz Hamm is Assistant Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen.

Features

  • offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches
  • written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science
  • accompanied by a website (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students