LEADER 04495nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910806287903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-85572-7 010 $a9786612855726 010 $a0-7735-6313-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773563131 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520938 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284761 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239331 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284761 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261878 035 $a(PQKB)11199690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400877 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331010 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141681 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285572 035 $a(OCoLC)929121299 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/5n7f8c 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331010 035 $a(DE-B1597)655640 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773563131 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245309 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520938 100 $a19930218d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTense, reference, and worldmaking /$fJames A. McGilvray 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1991 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 376 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7735-0871-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]-370) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe Basic Temporal and Semantic Structure of Sentences -- $tComplex Situations -- $tMeaning, Meaningfulness, and Reference -- $tReference -- $tExistence and Tense -- $tSituations and Aspects -- $tMeaning, Meaningfulness, and Constructivism -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aUsing Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tenses and temporal structures as a point of departure, McGilvray modifies it to produce a theory of his own. Analysing the difficulties Reichenbach's theory has in explaining the relationship of a speaker to a world, he introduces a new model for this relationship based on the three-interval temporal topology that Reichenbachian theory assigns to the sentences of natural languages. McGilvray explains and defends in detail Reichenbach's theory of tense and temporal structure, criticising and rejecting the major rival theory, found in tense logic. He also applies Reichenbach's nonstandard topology to English, showing that it is correct for the language. A significant aspect of McGilvray's study is the supplementing of Reichenbach's topology by including speakers, sentences, situations, and things spoken about with the temporal intervals. McGilvray relocates and reinterprets a prime source of faulty intuitions concerning time and tense -- our feeling that the past, present, and future must be thought of in terms of the settled, the immediate, and the unsettled. He uses his theory to explain the temporal and semantic structure of complex constructions in English, including propositional attitudes, modals, and conditionals. As well, he adapts the structure that Reichenbach's theory assigns to sentences to the aspects perfective (complete) and imperfective (incomplete). The novel view of temporal and semantic structure developed by McGilvray touches on virtually all the puzzles concerning the philosophy of language -- meaning and meaningfulness, the nature of reference, truth, propositions, and worldmaking. His emphasis is on how the speaker, by articulating sentences and understanding them, is both free and constrained -- free to describe something which can be located at any time and in any world, but constrained by the beliefs, evidence, information, and commitments held or made at the time of speech. 606 $aEnglish language$xTense 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTense 606 $aEnglish language$xReference 606 $aRole and reference grammar 615 0$aEnglish language$xTense. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTense. 615 0$aEnglish language$xReference. 615 0$aRole and reference grammar. 676 $a425 700 $aMcGilvray$b James A$g(James Alasdair),$f1942-$01598828 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806287903321 996 $aTense, reference, and worldmaking$93921253 997 $aUNINA