TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I. -- WHAT IS TIME AND TAME IN LANGUAGE?; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II. -- THE BEHAVIOR OF SPECIFIC TAME STRUCTURES; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III. -- TAME AND THE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER STRUCTURES; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time. The authors include well-renowned researchers as well as new contributors to the field who present cutting-edge research on a variety of topics, ranging from the fundamental nature of time to formal appr ..