The Expression of Time

Edited by Wolfgang Klein and Ping Li.

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book is intended as a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. V,278 Seiten, gebunden (The Expression of Cognitive Categories; Vol. 3/Walter de Gruyter Verlag 2009) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear