Author: M.W. Dickey
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, tense, theoretical, psycholinguistics, relations, interpretation, psycholinguistic, processing, temporal
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1402001851
ISBN-13: 9781402001857

This book presents an in-depth study of the processing of tense, more specifically the English past tense. Against a detailed theoretical background, it presents a number of psycholinguistic studies examining how and when the language processor assigns an interpretation to tense morphology. In so doing, it looks at several specific topics: temporal anaphora resolution, adverb preposing and discourse relations, and the sequence-of-tense ambiguity. The picture which emerges is one in which the processor is not guided by preceding context in making interpretive decisions regarding tense,

Author: Bob Levy
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Keywords: novel, tense, past
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0865343411
ISBN-13: 9780865343412

Adam Baldwin, in the middle of his seventh term as a United States Senator, is at the pinnacle of his career. And he is the front-runner for his party’s nomination for President at the looming Democratic National Convention. But a dark cloud hangs over his head. There is a seemingly far-fetched accusation that the candidate murdered a young woman decades before when in college. This is scoffed at by the local police, but when a suspicious explosion kills the accuser’s family, the curiosity of the retired Memphis Chief of Police, Joe O’Riley, a high school classmate of Baldwin

Author: L. A. Graf
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: tense, present
Published: 2002-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743445937
ISBN-13: 9780743445931

Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: bantu, aspect, tense
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0199239290
ISBN-13: 9780199239290

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described. Professor Nurse’s account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher’s website. He devotes subst

Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: causation, tense, time
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2000-11-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198250746
ISBN-13: 9780198250746

Michael Tooley presents a major new philosophical theory of the nature of time, offering a powerful alternative to the traditional "tensed" and recent "tenseless" accounts of time. He argues for a dynamic conception of the universe, in which past, present, and future are not merely subjective features of experience. He claims that the past and the present are real, while the future is not. Tooley’s approach accounts for time in terms of causation. He therefore claims that the key to understanding the dynamic nature of the universe is to understand the nature of causation. Time, Tense, an

Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: causation, tense, time
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1997-04-24
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0198235798
ISBN-13: 9780198235798

Michael Tooley presents a major new philosophical theory of the nature of time. He argues for a dynamic conception of the universe, according to which past, present, and future are not merely subjective features of experience: past and present are real, while the future is not. The key to understanding the nature of time is to understand the relation between time and causation. Time, Tense, and Causation is a landmark treatment of one of the oldest and most fascinating of intellectual problems; it is rich in sophisticated and stimulating discussions of a variety of metaphysical issues.

Author: James A. McGilvray
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: worldmaking, reference, tense
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1991-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773508716
ISBN-13: 9780773508712

Using Reichenbach’s (1947) theory of tenses and temporal structures as a point of departure, McGilvray modifies it to produce a theory of his own. Analysing the difficulties Reichenbach’s theory has in explaining the relationship of a speaker to a world, he introduces a new model for this relationship based on the three-interval temporal topology that Reichenbachian theory assigns to the sentences of natural languages. McGilvray explains and defends in detail Reichenbach’s theory of tense and temporal structure, criticising and rejecting the major rival theory, found in ten