The papers in this volume were ?rstpresented at the International
Round Table Time and Modality held in Paris in December of 2005 and
organized by the Jeune ' Equipe B 368 Syntaxe anglaise et syntaxe
comparative (Universite ' Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and by the
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Centre National dela
Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS) and UniversiteP ' aris 7). We wish to
thank the institutions that provided ?nancial support for the Round
Table: the CNRS, the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle,the
Conseil Sci- ti?que(Universite 's Paris3 and Paris 7) and the
Bureaudes Relations Internationales (UniversiteP ' aris3). vii
Contents Preface ...vii Contributors ...xv Introduction ...1 1Tense
...2 2Aspect ...3 2. 1 Perfectand Perfectivity ...3 2. 2
Eventuality Type ...4 3 Modals and Modal Verbs ...5 3. 1
Subject/Speaker Orientation ...5 3. 2 The Temporal Location of
Modal Verbs ...6 3. 3 The Temporal/Causal Function of Modal Verbs
...7 3. 4 The Temporal Syntax of Non-Root Modals ...8 3. 5 Weak
Necessity Modals ...9 4 The Role of Past Morphology in Modal
Contexts ...9 5 The Subjunctive ...10 6 Genericity ...11 7Copular
Clauses ...11 8Conclusions and Open Problems...1 2 References ...14
Patterns in the Semantics of Generic Sentences ...17 Greg Carlson 1
The Setting ...17 2TheIssues ...18 3 Induction and Stipulation
...22 3. 1 Rules and Induction ...22 3. 2 What do Generic
Sentencesdo? ...23 3. 3 Inductive Generalizations Again ...24 ix x
Contents 4 Patterns ...25 4. 1 Patterns and Non-Patterns ...25 4. 2
Generic Sentences ...27 4. 3 Restriction ...
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