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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 58
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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.
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