Van Lambalgen Michiel, Hamm Fritz. The Proper Treatment of Events

Blackwell. Malden, MA, USA; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria, Australia. 2005. — 266 pages. Includes references and index. — ISBN10: 1405112123; ISBN13: 978-1405112123The 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 linguistics, 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.Time, Events, and Cognition
Time
Events and Time
Language, Time, and Planning
The Formal Apparatus
Events Formalized
Computing with Time and Events
Finishing Touches
A Marriage Made in Heaven – Linguistics and Robotics
Aktionsart
Tense
Tense in French: Passé Simple and Imparfait
Grammatical Aspect
Coercion
Nominalization
The Basics of Logic Programming