Events, States and Times An essay on narrative discourse in English
This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinct...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Warschau/Berlin :
De Gruyter
2016.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746340006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Part I: Narrative progression: From discourse connectivity to event partitivity; 1 Preliminary thoughts: Narrative discourse; 2 Prominence: A look at 'now'; 2.1 Challenges to Kamp's principle; 2.2 Time prominence account of 'now'; 2.2.1 Coherence and temporal anaphora; 2.2.2 Beyond the time prominence account of 'now'; 2.3 'Now' seeks prominent final states; 2.4 Two consequences of the proposal; 2.4.1 Is `now' a pure indexical?; 2.4.2 Times versus states; 3 Coherence: A look at narration and result; 3.1 Delimiting the task; 3.2 narration and result. 3.2.1 Hobbs1985 on occasion3.2.2 The definition of narration; 3.2.3 The definition of result; 3.2.4 A minimal ontology; 3.2.5 The relationship between narration and result; 3.3 Abducing structural constraints on EDUs; 3.3.1 Structural laws; 3.3.2 Possibilities for EDUs; Appendices; A Narrative progression with statives?; B Derivations; B.1 Deriving ; B.2 Absurd consequences; Part II: Semantics and pragmatics of tense: The nuts and bolts; 4 Cessation and double access; 4.1 Temporal implicatures and temporal profile of statives; 4.2 Semantics of tense: First pass; 4.3 Double access. 4.3.1 Cessation and parentheticality4.3.2 Two complications; 4.3.3 Abusch's account of double access Heim-style; 4.3.4 The meaning of the present tense revisited; 4.4 Calculating cessation in embedded contexts; 5 Sequence of tense; 5.1 Relative present; 5.2 Simultaneous readings and tense shifting; 5.3 Alleged simultaneity with the progressive; 5.4 Final words on tense shifting: Evidence for and against; 5.5 ULC and beyond; 6 Concluding thoughts: Ways of composing with viewpoint aspect; 6.1 Towards a compositional semantics; 6.2 Viewpoint aspect. 6.2.1 The neo-Kleinian and Bach/Krifka analyses6.2.2 Comparing the two analyses; Bibliography.
