Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

von T. Ogihara

282 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
• ISBN: 9780792338017
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.1995
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• Verlag: Springer Netherland