Future Times, Future Tenses
Future Times, Future Tenses
- ISBN 13:
9780199679157
- ISBN 10:
0199679150
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 08/26/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
This book considers and seeks a resolution to outstanding issues in the field by uniting linguistic and philosophical perspectives on future reference in natural language. Scholars from different parts of the world approach these issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including those of linguistic typology, formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. In the process they question the very validity of the traditional notion of a specific marker for future tense. The book shows the close connections between linguistic, logical, metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological issues concerning the future and reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time.