One book couldn't possibly be enough to cover the topic of nouns. The cats are back with their comical examples to drive home to readers just what a noun is. Specific types of nouns--such as abstract nouns and proper nouns--are also introduced in this giggle-a-page expansion on the topic.

This is easy to read, general history for the average person in the street who has a broad interest in the life of the country but who hasn't got the background to read the "proper" histories.

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive considerations.

offers a new theory of the semantics of tense aspect and nominalizations that combines formal semantics and cognitive approaches written accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer science accompanied by a website at
 (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/)
that provides slides for instructors and background material for students.
It seems fair to say that there is no definite theory of the semantics of tense and aspect yet. In their book "The Proper Treatment of Events", Michiel van Lambalgen, a philosopher and cognitive scientist, and Fritz Hamm, a linguist, propose a new theory that, as far as I can tell, does remarkably well.

 

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