Tense, attitudes, and scope

by Ogihara, Toshiyuki

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Full title :Tense, attitudes, and scope / by Toshiyuki Ogihara.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer Science+Business Media
Place of Publication:Dordrecht
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789401586092, 9401586098
DOI:10.1007/978-94-015-8609-2
oclc:ocn851393921
LC Classification:P325-325.5
Dewey Decimal:401.43

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 -- Index.