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ABOUT THE BOOK

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Linguistic Expression of Temporal Reference

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 1-64

   
   

2. Formal Semantic-Discursive and Pragmatic Assessments of Temporal Reference

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 65-110

   
   

3. Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Verbal Tenses

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 111-135

   
   

4. Experimental Study Using Annotation Experiments

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 137-172

   
   

5. A Pragmatic Model of Temporal Cohesive Ties

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 173-215

   
   

6. Temporal Coherence

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 217-262

   
   

7. Application to Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation

   • Cristina Grisot

   Pages 263-288

   
   

8. Back Matter

   Pages 289-319