The Proper Treatment of Events [Paperback]

• 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

Preface.

Part I: Time, events and cognition.

Chapter 1: Time.

Psychology of time.

Why do we have the experience of time at all?.

Chapter 2: Events and time.

The analogy between events and objects.

The Russell-Kamp construction of time from events.

Walker’s construction.

Richer languages for events.

Some linguistic applications.

**Continuous time from events.

Conclusion.

Chapter 3: Language, time and planning.

Part II: The formal apparatus.

Chapter 4: Events formalized.

A calculus of events.

The axiom system EC.

Scenarios.

Minimal models.

Chapter 5: Computing with time and events.

Logic programming with constraints.

Minimal models revisited.

How to get to the other side of a street.

**When do causes take effect?.ló!