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Future Times, Future Tenses (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,138
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Future Times, Future Tenses (Hardcover): Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, Saghie Sharifzadeh

Future Times, Future Tenses (Hardcover)

Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, Saghie Sharifzadeh

Series: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, 2

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Future Times, Future Tenses examines how the future is expressed by means of tense, aspect, and modality across a wide range of languages, among them French, Polish, Basque, Turkish, and West Greenlandic. From the present point of view, the future is not fixed: while there is arguably only one past, the future is largely open and/or indeterminate. Reference to the future has thus become one of the most hotly-debated topics in contemporary linguistics: the interactions of future tense with future time, and of future tense with the semantics of possible worlds, are crucial to any satisfactory account of temporal linguistics. This book considers and seeks a resolution to outstanding issues in the field by uniting linguistic and philosophical perspectives on future reference in natural language. Scholars from different parts of the world approach these issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including those of linguistic typology, formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. In the process they question the very validity of the traditional notion of a specific marker for future tense. The book shows the close connections between linguistic, logical, metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological issues concerning the future and reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, 2
Release date: June 2014
Editors: Philippe De Brabanter (Assistant Professor) • Mikhail Kissine (Assistant Professor) • Saghie Sharifzadeh (Assistant Professor)
Dimensions: 235 x 162 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967915-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-967915-0
Barcode: 9780199679157

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