Tense, aspect and temporal order : before and after
| dc.contributor.advisor | Beaver, David I., 1966- | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kamp, Hans | |
| dc.creator | Cope, Justin Lynn | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-09T21:01:49Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:26:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:26:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2014-10-09T21:01:49Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Anscombe (1964) presents influential arguments that 'before' and 'after' cannot denote converse relations, despite intuitions to the contrary. These arguments, I claim, rely on ambiguity of certain 'before'- and 'after'-sentences, ambiguity that arises from the interaction of tense and aspect with the temporal ordering relations denoted by 'before' and 'after'. To account for this ambiguity, I adopt a Discourse Representation Theory-based analysis of tense and aspect (Kamp & Reyle 2011) and apply it to a set of examples that exhibit the variety of readings available for 'before'- and 'after'-sentences. I argue that certain readings of stative 'after'-sentences support the existence of an inceptive coercion operator, equivalent in effect to the aspectual verb 'begin'. This operator has much in common with 'earliest', an operator proposed by Beaver & Condoravdi (2003), but it is motivated by independent aspectual considerations. I conclude with a discussion of areas for future research. | en |
| dc.description.department | Linguistics | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26424 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Temporal semantics | en |
| dc.subject | Before and after | en |
| dc.subject | Tense | en |
| dc.subject | Aspect | en |
| dc.subject | Coercion | en |
| dc.subject | Discourse representation theory | en |
| dc.title | Tense, aspect and temporal order : before and after | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |