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Time in Natural Language - Syntactic Interfaces with Semantics and Discourse (Hardcover)
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Time in Natural Language - Syntactic Interfaces with Semantics and Discourse (Hardcover)
Series: Interface Explorations [IE]
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Time in Natural Language investigates the relationship between the
syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the
domain of tense. Assuming that tenses are semantically composed of
three distinct times, Thompson proposes that these times map onto
the syntax in a regular fashion: each time is associated with a
unique syntactic head. Adopting the Minimalist approach to
syntactic theory, this approach makes possible insightful analyses
of syntactic structures involving temporal dependency. Thompson
argues that, depending on their adjunction site, temporal
adverbials modify different parts of the tense structure of the
clause. Locating the Event time within VP, it is correctly
predicted that an adverbial that modifies the Event time is
adjoined to VP. On the other hand, since the Reference time is
argued to be within AspP, when an adverbial is adjoined to AspP, it
modifies the Reference time. The syntax of temporal adjunct clauses
is accounted for in a similar fashion; they may be adjoined either
to VP, where they are interpreted as simultaneous with the matrix
event, or to AspP, where they are interpreted as nonsimultaneous.
Thompson shows that the analysis sheds light on the less-studied
issue of the temporal syntax of arguments. Subjects with gerundive
relative clauses are claimed to be interpreted in VP at LF when the
relative clause is temporally dependent on the Event time of the
main clause, and in TP when the relative clause is dependent on the
Speech time of the main clause. By extending the syntactic proposal
to investigate the discourse-level effects of tense, an original
analysis of the discourse representation of tense is proposed.
Thompson argues that the discourse representation of tense is based
on same primitives and subject to the same principles as the
syntactic representation of tense, based on an in-depth examination
of the structure and meaning of the temporal discourse adverb then.
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