Tense, Time, Aspect and the Ancient Greek Verb

Tense beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/aspect/mood on Nominal Dependents

It is generally held that clausal temporal, aspectual and modal features, when encoded morphologically, are expressed by or on clausal heads. However nominals and modifiers within NP can also be inflected for tense, aspect and modal features interpreted with respect to the clausal predication rather than with respect to the nominal argument itself. Such nominals (and dependents within NP) there...

Time , Tense and Aspect in Natural

Most existing natural language database interfaces (nldbs) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic mechanisms (verb tenses, temporal adverbials, temporal subordinate clauses, etc.). The database community is becoming increasingly interested in temporal databas...

How To Visualize Time, Tense And Aspect?

Nous allons dEcrire ci-dessous une extension d'un syst~me interactif de gEnEration de phrases. Apr~s une description de SWIM,-acronyme de See What I Mean ?-nous allons discuter la fa~on dont on communique au syst~me des notions relatives au temps et ~t l'aspect. Avec SWIM nous poursuivons trois objectifs : (a) assister un Etudiant dans rapprentissage d'une langue, plus prdcisEment aider l'appre...

Tense, Aspect, and Cognitive Representation of Time

Tense, Aspect and the Cognitive Representation of Time

This paper explores the relationshiDs between a computational meory of temporal representation (as developed by James Alien) and a Iormal linguiStiC theory Of tense (as developed by NorOert Hornstem) and aspect. It aims tO prowde exphcit answers to four lundamental Questions: (1) what ts the computational lustd~cat=on for me or=mmves of a hngu=stIc theory; (2) what ~s the computational explanat...