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is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense theory') and argues against the view that tenses are all indexicals. This idea is formally encoded as a
analysis of attitudes, originally proposed by Lewis, coupled with a sequence-of-tense rule posited for English. An auxiliary proposal is made to account for some exceptional cases (e.g. so-called double-access sentences), which invokes
attitudes about temporal entities (states or intervals). Since the proposed account assumes that the interpretation of tense is structure-dependent, it also correctly predicts scope interactions between tenses and NPs.
is intended for scholars and graduate students in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of language and Japanese linguistics.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792338017
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-3801-7
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.1995
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1996
- Serie: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1320 g
- Seiten: 282
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 21 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt