This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance.

Introduction: Thinking About Time and Living in Time; 1. Real Time and the Concept of Time; 2. Time as Modality; 3. Semantic Representation of Time: A Preamble; 4. Time in Default Semantics; Conclusion: 'Looking Forward' Into the Future; References; Index

Kasia M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge