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Future Times, Future Tenses (Hardcover)
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Future Times, Future Tenses (Hardcover)
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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