Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

T. Ogihara (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

1995 | 1996 ed.
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-3801-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.1995
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 58
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 282 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7923-3801-4 / 0792338014
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-3801-7 / 9780792338017
Zustand	Neuware