Tense, aspect, and indexicality
By: James Higginbotham.
Series: Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics -- 26
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780199239313; 9780199239320
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense; Indexicals (Semantics); Semantics (Philosophy); Language and languages -- Philosophy
Description: James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tense, indexicality, and consequence; title: On events in linguistic semantics; title: Tensed thoughts; title: Tensed second thoughts: comments on Richard; title: Why is sequense of tense obligatory; title: Anaphoric tense; title: Accomplishments; title: The English progressive; title: The English perfect and the metaphysics of events; title: Competence with demonstratives; title: A plea for implicit anaphora; title: Remembering, imagining and the first person.