The Proper Treatment of Events

The 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 linguists, 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