172 Pages
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Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic framework. Arguments presented herein explicate the meanings of these expressions, and account for... Read more
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Futurates
Chapter Three: Futures
Chapter Four: Conditionals
Chapter Five: Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Bridget Copley is a semanticist affiliated with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Université Paris 8 as a Chargée de Recherche in the UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage."
"This book is a must for scholars of future referring constructions in any language and any theoretical framework." --Ana Bravo, University of Granada
