Tense, aspect, and indexicality /

Tense, aspect, and indexicality / James Higginbotham.

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James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.

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Main Author: Higginbotham, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 26.
Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense.
Indexicals (Semantics)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Tense, indexicality, and consequence
  • On events in linguistic semantics
  • Tensed thoughts
  • Tensed second thoughts: comments on Richard
  • Why is sequense of tense obligatory
  • Anaphoric tense
  • Accomplishments
  • The English progressive
  • The English perfect and the metaphysics of events
  • Competence with demonstratives
  • A plea for implicit anaphora
  • Remembering, imagining and the first person.

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