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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820179203321

Autore

Higginbotham James

Titolo

Tense, aspect, and indexicality / / James Higginbotham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-38391-4

9786612383915

0-19-156748-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; ; 26

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect

Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense

Indexicals (Semantics)

Semantics (Philosophy)

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

James Higginbotham's key contributions to 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. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy.