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Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Toshiyuki Ogihara

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 58)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 1-19

  3. Tense and Temporal Adverbials in Simple Sentences

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 20-67

  4. Previous Analyses of Tenses in Embedded Clauses

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 68-100

  5. Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena in Complement Clauses

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 101-150

  6. Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena in Adjunct Clauses

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 151-189

  7. Tense and de re Attitudes

    • Toshiyuki Ogihara
    Pages 190-246

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 247-281
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About this book

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense theory') and argues against the view that tenses are all indexicals. This idea is formally encoded as a de se analysis of attitudes, originally proposed by Lewis, coupled with a sequence-of-tense rule posited for English. An auxiliary proposal is made to account for some exceptional cases (e.g. so-called double-access sentences), which invokes de re attitudes about temporal entities (states or intervals). Since the proposed account assumes that the interpretation of tense is structure-dependent, it also correctly predicts scope interactions between tenses and NPs.
Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is intended for scholars and graduate students in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of language and Japanese linguistics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Toshiyuki Ogihara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

  • Authors: Toshiyuki Ogihara

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8609-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3801-7Published: 30 November 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4640-6Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8609-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 282

  • Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics

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