Events, States and Times : : An essay on narrative discourse in English / / Daniel Altshuler.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Warschau/Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.