In the finite-state temporality approach, events in natural language semantics have been characterized in regular languages, with strings representing sequences of temporal observations. We extend this approach to natural language constructions which are not regular. Context-free constructions are detailed and discussed. Superposition, the key operator in the finite-state temporality approach i...

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The proposal from Steedman 2005 that “the formal devices” required for temporality in linguistic semantics “are those related to representation of causality and goal-directed action” is developed using finite automata, implicit in which are notions of causality (labelled transitions) and goal-directed action (final/accepting states). Three strands in theories of aspect isolated in Binnick 2006 ...

William James’ Principles of Psychology, in which he made famous the ‘specious present’ doctrine of temporal experience, and Edmund Husserl’s Zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins, were giant strides in the philosophical investigation of the temporality of experience. However, an important set of precursors to these works has not been adequately investigated. In this article, we under...

This article introduces a conceptual tool for analyzing video game temporality, the temporal frame, and a methodology by which new temporal frames can be constructed as needed during analysis. A temporal frame is a set of events, along with the temporality induced by the relationships between those events. The authors discuss four common temporal frames: real-world time (events taking place in ...

• Man\' of Lincoln's best remembered oratit)n,s, including the House Divided Speech, the Cooper Union Address, and the Gettysburg Address, exhibit a elear pattern of temporal organization. The introductory remarks establish an orientation divided into past, p')rc.scnt, and future, and then the three tenses reappear in the body of the speech, each marking out one of its major divisions. Close re...

Temporal relations between events and times are often difficult to discover, time-consuming and expensive. In this paper a corpus study is performed to derive a strong relation between discourse structure, as revealed by Veins theory, and the temporal links between entities, as addressed in the TimeML annotation standard. The data interpretation helps us gain insight on how Veins theory can imp...