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The German Perfect: Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials(78 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy)

The German Perfect: Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials(78 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy)

          
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This work provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense system into account, provides analyses of several temporal adverbials and their intricate behaviour, and offers ideas concerning the semantics of temporal subclauses. Although one of the main goals of the book is to integrate the results of the study into a formal semantic framework, it also considers many pragmatic factors as well as aspects concerning German syntax. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in issues regarding tense, aspect, temporal adverbials, and temporal subclauses.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction.- 1. Outline.- 2. Tense and aspect.- 3. Contexts and temporal specifications.- 4. The tenses in German.- 5. Temporal interpretation and individuals.- 6. A formal semantic implementation of tense and aspect.- 7. Conclusion.- 2: The Semantics Of The Present Perfect.- 1. Perfectly compositional.- 2. The morphosyntactic source of the anteriority component.- 3. The stativity of perfect constructions.- 4. Identifying the synchronic anteriority component: an optimality approach to focus effects.- 5. Conclusion, formal semantic account, and refinements.- 3: The Meaning Effects Of The Present Perfect.- 1. The problem.- 2. The effects of the present perfect.- 3. Previous accounts.- 4. How pragmatic principles operate on the semantics.- 5. Why past tense and present perfect often can be substituted by each other.- 6. Completedness effects.- 7. Indefiniteness effects.- 8. Present relevance.- 9. Stage-level-to-individual-level switches: Mozart’s lung disease.- 10. Individual-level-to-stage-level switches: temporary intelligence.- 11. English vs. German: Einstein and Princeton.- 12. Conclusion.- 4: Types Of Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Quantificational adverbials, position adverbials, and duration adverbials.- 3. Duration adverbials and situation types.- 4. Distinguishing position and duration adverbials.- 5. The interpretation of nonquantificational temporal adverbials.- 5: Interactions With Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The formal integration of temporal adverbials in semantic representations.- 3. Temporal adverbials on the tense level, aspect level, and participle level.- 4. Temporal adverbials as frame-setting modifiers.- 5. Temporal adverbials as restrictors of nontemporal quantifiers.- 6. Temporal adverbials below the participlelevel.- 7. Temporal adverbials with quantificational and nonquantificational components.- 8. Iteration of adverbials on a single level.- 9. On universal perfect readings.- 10. Remarks concerning negation.- 11. Summary.- 6: The Contribution Of Particular Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Seit-adverbials: ‘up-to-TT’ interpretations.- 3. Extended now theories of perfect constructions: apparent evidence by up-to-TT-adverbials and why it is misleading.- 4. Existential and universal perfect readings.- 5. Temporal bis-adverbials: ‘TT-independent’ interpretations.- 6. Temporal in-adverbials.- 7. Adverbials of the type x-lang.- 8. Conclusion.- 7: Temporal Subordinate Clauses, Conjunctions, And Matrix Clauses.- 1. Introduction.- 2.’ simultaneity’ between main clause and subclause.- 3. Time parameters of the main clause before time parameters of the subclause.- 4. Time parameters of the main clause after time parameters of the subclause.- 5. Durational subclauses: solange (‘as long as’).- 6. Conclusion.- 8: On The Syntax Of Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The unmarked surface order of temporal adverbials of a single level.- 3. Preposing of temporal adverbials in English.- 4. ‘Topicalization’ of temporal adverbials in German.- 5. Scrambling of temporal adverbials.- 6. Summary: base positions and surface positions of temporal adverbials.- 9: Conclusion.- References.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781402008221
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Edition: 2002 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 408 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1402008228
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 275
  • Series Title: 78 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
  • Sub Title: Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials
  • Width: 160 mm


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