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Zhou, Minglang.

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A study of temporal relations in natural languages with special reference to Chinese and English.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A study of temporal relations in natural languages with special reference to Chinese and English./
作者:	Zhou, Minglang.
面頁冊數:	249 p.
附註:	Adviser: Barbara K. Abbott.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-02A.
標題:	Language, Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9418093

A study of temporal relations in natural languages with special reference to Chinese and English.
Zhou, Minglang.

A study of temporal relations in natural languages with special reference to Chinese and English. - 249 p.

Adviser: Barbara K. Abbott.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1993.

It is tempting to assume that the study of temporal relations in natural languages begins with verbs, but this is simply not true. Studies have been focused on verbs in terms of theories of action rather than temporal properties since Aristotle. In modern linguistics and philosophy, how temporal relations are represented in natural languages is generally ignored, while time is considered external as in possible world semantics, where truth conditions for sentences are obtained against possible worlds at a moment or interval of time. These approaches lead to paradoxes and puzzles with respect to the representation of time in natural languages.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

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520 $a It is tempting to assume that the study of temporal relations in natural languages begins with verbs, but this is simply not true. Studies have been focused on verbs in terms of theories of action rather than temporal properties since Aristotle. In modern linguistics and philosophy, how temporal relations are represented in natural languages is generally ignored, while time is considered external as in possible world semantics, where truth conditions for sentences are obtained against possible worlds at a moment or interval of time. These approaches lead to paradoxes and puzzles with respect to the representation of time in natural languages.
520 $a This study focuses on temporal relations represented in natural languages. Linguistic evidence from Chinese, English and other languages suggests that there are three dimensions of representation of temporal relations in natural languages: Linear Time, Frame Time and Situation Time. Linear Time is a set of points of time without duration but with precedence ordered in relation to speech time in a linear structure. Frame Time is a set of intervals of time, which are denoted by temporal frame adverbials and within which a described event/activity takes place or a state holds. Frame Time represents temporal inclusion relations. Situation Time is a set of instants or intervals of time denoted by verbs, where intervals are designated as bound or non-bound by verb modifiers. Situation Time represents part-of relations. These three dimensions exhibit completely different logical behaviors that underlie entailment relations between sentences with different verbs, tenses, aspects and temporal adverbials.
520 $a The relations among Linear Time, Frame Time and Situation Time account for a large range of linguistic phenomena, such as aspect viewpoints, the present perfect puzzle, and the demonstrative use and anaphoric behaviors of temporal expressions. For example, linguistic evidence shows that the relations between Frame Time and Situation Time are universal in verbal aspect interpretations, though grammaticalization of those relations as aspect is subject to parameterization. This study claims that these three dimensions of temporal relations and the relations among them are universal in natural languages, though grammaticalization of a particular relation is parameterized in a particular language.
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