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1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : illustrations |
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Language, context, and cognition ; v. 2 |
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Language, context, and cognition ; v. 2.
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Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- I. Temporality in Language: From Lexical Meaning to Text -- Interpretation -- 1. The Association and Dissociation of Semantic Meaning and (Con)Textual Interpretation -- 2. The Ambiguity of Temporal Information in Texts -- II. Time and Temporal Structure: a Conceptual Analysis -- 1. The Origins of Temporal Structure -- 1.1 General Remarks on Time and Temporal Structure -- 1.2 Natural Situations -- 1.3 The Pragmatic View: Natural Situations as Ontological Commitments -- 2. Temporal Interpretation in Interval Semantics |
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2.1 Evaluation Relative to Intervals of Time2.2 Some Conclusions from Interval Semantics, Concerning Temporal Interpretation and the Sequencing of Situations -- 3. Objections to Interval-Based Theories -- 3.1 Natural Situations as Contexts: From Natural Situations to Possible Propositions -- 3.2 Natural Situations as Truth-makers: From Propositions to Possible Referents -- 4. Establishing Times -- 4.1 Indeterminate Structures in the Domain of Physical Objects: a Parallelism -- 4.2 Consequences for the Informativeness of Sortal Concepts -- 4.3 Establishing Features |
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4.4 The Underspecification of Verbal Semantics5. Summary and Conclusions: Establishing Features, Temporal Relations, and Temporal Sequencing -- III. A Methodological Framework Combining Formal Semantics and Formal Knowledge Representation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two-Level Semantics -- 3. Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Semantics -- 4. The Five-Level Approach: a Unified Framework for the Representation of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge -- 4.1 The Five-Level Approach to Knowledge Representation |
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4.2 A Five-Level Representation of Temporal Interpretation5. Extemalism � Internalism, Pragmatism � Realism: Some Remarks On the Role of Ontology -- IV. Ontological and Epistemological Conditions on Temporal Reference -- 1. Epistemological Presumptions -- 1.1 Epistemology vs. Ontology -- 1.2 Partiality -- 1.3 Heuristics -- 2. A Formal Ontology of Time and Temporal Structure -- 2.1 The Ontologically Basic Assumptions of GOL -- 2.2 Mereology -- 2.3 Chronology -- 3. Ontological and Epistemological Extensions |
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3.1 Partial Structures, Representative Partial Structures, and Establishing Parts and Times3.2 Chronological Relations Applying to Partial Structures and Their Elements -- 4. Partial Temporal Relations: Reasoning with Partial Structures -- 4.1 Approaches to Temporal Reasoning With Incomplete Knowledge -- 4.2 Translating Boundedness and Sequence of Partial Structures into Partial Interval Relations -- 4.3 Definitions and Relation Hierarchies for Partial Temporal Relations -- 5. Conclusions |
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Die innovative Arbeit untersucht, wie Zeitkonzepte sprachlich ausgedrückt (konzeptualisiert) werden. Dabei werden sowohl grammatische als auch außersprachliche (ontologische) Aspekte mit einbezogen. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Begründung einer formal-semantischen Theorie temporaler Informationen, die Antworten gibt auf Fragen wie ,Wie repräsentiert die Grammatik der Sprache Wissen über zeitliche Strukturen?', ,Welche formalen Mittel dienen der Explikation dieses Wissens?' usw. Sie leistet einen grundlegenden Beitrag zu einer ontologiebasierten Semantik der natürlichen Sprachen und zur Semantik der Wissensrepräsentationssprachen |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-355) and index |
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Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions.
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Semantics.
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Discourse analysis
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect.
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semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
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Discourse analysis
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions
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Semantics
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005001081 |
| ISBN |
9783110919523 |
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3110919524 |
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