T. Ogihara

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope 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 de se 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 de re 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. Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is intended for scholars and graduate students in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of language and Japanese linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401586092
• Artikelnr.: 43985598

Inhaltsangabe

One: Introduction.- Two: Tense and Temporal Adverbials in Simple Sentences.- Three: Previous Analyses of Tenses in Embedded Clauses.- Four: Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena in Complement Clauses.- Five: Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena in Adjunct Clauses.- Six: Tense and De Re Attitudes.- Appendix: The Syntax and Semantics of Tenses in English and Japanese.- References.