CROUCH

Language and Logic
TEMPORALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TIMES

Introductory course

Dick Crouch

Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham

First week
rsc@cs.nott.ac.uk

Course description
This course discusses the resources from logic and artificial intelligence research that can be used to build knowledge representations to support common sense reasoning about events and times, so as to support a semantics for verbs, temporal adverbials and other natural language categories like tense, mood, and aspect. While these categories are commonly talked of as "temporal", a major concern of the tutorial will be to argue that they are primarily causal and teleological.

Prerequisites
None

Literature
Steedman, M. 1997, `Temporality', in J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 895-938.

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Language and Logic	TEMPORALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TIMES
Introductory course	Dick Crouch Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
First week	rsc@cs.nott.ac.uk
Course description	This course discusses the resources from logic and artificial intelligence research that can be used to build knowledge representations to support common sense reasoning about events and times, so as to support a semantics for verbs, temporal adverbials and other natural language categories like tense, mood, and aspect. While these categories are commonly talked of as "temporal", a major concern of the tutorial will be to argue that they are primarily causal and teleological.
Prerequisites	None
Literature	Steedman, M. 1997, `Temporality', in J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 895-938.