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 approacheswritten accessibly for students and scholars in theoretical linguists, as well as in philosophy of language, logic, cognitive science, and computer scienceaccompanied by a website at (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~michiell/) that provides slides for instructors and background material for students