Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality

by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

Book Overview

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come from? Are they basic concepts or are they composed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199214441
• ISBN13: 9780199214440
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"