Re: THEORY: Tenses for Time Travelers; Plus, Moods and Modalities for Alternate Realities

 Have you seen the following book about time in natural languages? Just out:
The Language of Time: A Reader Published: 2005 by Oxford University
PressEditors: Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, Robert Gaizauskas A
review:"This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics,
computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the
use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time:
whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or
hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have
lasted. In focussing on the treatment and retrieval of time-based information
it seeks to lay the foundation for temporally-aware natural language computer
processing systems, for example those that process documents on the worldwide
web to answer questions or produce summaries. The development of such systems
requires the application of technical knowledge from many different
disciplines. The book
is the first to bring these disciplines together, by means of classic and
contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect, and event structure; temporal
reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal
annotation." Might be worthwile in re Conlangs. Regards, LEO Leo J. Moser
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