John A. Nerbonne

German Temporal Semantics (eBook, PDF)

Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic with the second chapter applying the theory to an analysis of temporal meaning in German. Chapter 3 provides a formal syntax to bear the semantic analysis proposed in the second chapter and the final chapter explores syntactic and semantic extensions of the fragment, showing how the Perfect, the particle noch, the passive, and a distinct reading of frame adverbials may be accommodated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134992270
• Artikelnr.: 47381618

Autorenporträt

John A. Nerbonne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. A Reichenbachian Tense Logic; 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Triple
Dependence 1.3 What is Reference Time 1.4 The Logic 1.5 The Preterite and
the Indexical Interpretation of Reichenbach 1.5.1 The Motivation for
Indexical Treatments of Tense 1.5.2 Vagueness and Indexicality 1.5.3
Indefinite Reference to Time 1.6 Temporal Reference in Connected Discourse
1.6.1 The Treatment of Aktionsarten 1.6.2 Time in Connected Discourse 1.6.3
Some Special Uses of the Preterite 1.7 The Need for Three Indices 1.7.1 The
Need for at Least Three Indices 1.7.2 More than Three Indices Notes; 2. A
Tense Logical Sketch of German; 2.1 Frame Adverbials 2.2 Baeuerle and
Stechow's Analysis 2.3 The German Present Tense 2.3.1 Semantics of the
German Present Tense 2.3.2 Sample Derivation of Complex Truth and
Conditions 2.3.3 Why Atelics are Presumed to Refer to Speech Time 2.3.4
Kratzer's Speech time Pragmatics 2.3.5 The Nonambiguity of the Present
Tense 2.3.6 Conclusion 2.4 Duratives 2.5 Frist Adverbials 2.6 (Temporal)
schon 2.6.1 Preliminaries 2.6.2 Other Uses of schon 2.6.3 The Truth
Conditions of Temporal schon 2.6.4 schon with Telic Aktionsarten 2.7
Semantic Rules Notes; 3. A Fragment of German; 3.1 GPSG: Formalism and
Notation 3.2 German Syntax 3.2.1 Constituents of the Sentence 3.2.2
Fronting (of Several Kinds) 3.2.3 Phantoms and Some Recalcitrant Sorts of
Fronting 3.3 Basic Rules 3.3.1 Features for Complements 3.3.2 Separable
Prefix Words 3.4 Fronting Formalized 3.5 The Analyses of Jean Fourquet 3.6
Two Strategies for the Treatment of Temporalia (in GPSG) 3.6.1 Tense as a
Verb Operator Excurses: On Duratives (and Frequentatives) as Complements to
the Verb 3.6.2 Tenses as Phrasal Operators 3.7 Metarules for Temporalia
3.7.1 Duratives and Frist Adverbials 3.7.2 Frame Adverbials (that Modify
Reference Time) 3.8 Some Derivations 3.9 The Syntax of Temporal Schon
Notes; 4. Extending the Fragment; 4.1 The Perfect Tenses 4.1.1 The Forms of
the Perfect 4.1.2 The Meaning of the Perfect Tenses 4.1.3 The Syntax of the
Perfect 4.1.4 A Sample Derivation 4.2 Adverbials which Modify Event Time
4.3 Noch 4.3.1 Nontemporal Noch 4.3.2 Immer Noch 4.3.3 The Syntax of Noch
4.4 Passives 4.4.1. The Subjectlessness of Impersonal Passives 4.4.2 The
Lexical Nature of the Passive 4.4.3 A Formulation of the Rule Notes;
References