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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

Ogihara, T.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Book 58

PhilosophyGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9048146402
ISBN13: 9789048146406
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 6 2010
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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