Binary tense / Henk J. Verkuyl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verkuyl, H. J.

Series:

CSLI lecture notes ; no. 187.

CSLI lecture notes ; no. 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Binary principle (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Stanford, CA] : CSLI Publications, [2008]

Contents:

1 Ternary vs. Binary Tense 1

2 Reichenbach's quadratic system: 3 x 3 4

2.1 Building a matrix 4

2.2 Problems with Reichenbach's system 7

3 Te Winkel's cubic system: 2 x 2 x 2 11

3.1 Building a cube 11

3.2 Te Winkel vs. Reichenbach 15

4 Perfect: tense or aspect? 20

2 Making the Binary System Compositional 29

2 Present vs. Past 31

3 Synchronous vs. Posterior 34

4 Completed vs. Incompleted 36

5 Posteriority and anteriority 38

6 The role of auxiliaries as carriers of tense 41

7 Improving on Prior 47

3 Exploring a Binary System with Three Oppositions 51

2 Extending the system: two sorts of present 53

3 Current relevance 60

4 Splitting a present: making room for posteriority 65

4.1 Present posteriority 67

4.2 Past posteriority 70

4.3 Tense and negation 72

5 The present as a union 75

6 Present Perfect and the Extended Now 78

7 Present tense in Dutch and in English 83

8 The Present-Past opposition and habituality 88

4 Adverbial Modification and Tense Oppositions 91

2 Temporal adverbials and modification of tense 92

2.1 Measuring adverbials: For an hour vs. In an hour 96

2.2 Locating Adverbials: setting and relational 104

2.3 Durational Locating adverbials 110

3 Two types of ambiguity 112

3.1 Perfect ambiguity 112

3.2 Supratemporal ambiguity 118

5 Complex Tense Structure 125

2 The superfluity of the Now-operator 129

3 On the temporal semantics of complement clauses 134

3.1 That-complements 136

3.2 Infinitival Complements 138

3.3 Temporal semantics and propositional attitudes 141

4 i-discrepancy and i-matching 144

4.1 i-discrepancy: i[subscript 0] [not equal] i[subscript 1] 145

4.2 i-matching: i[subscript 0] = i[subscript 1] 151

6 Binary Tense in Languages with a Poor Tense System 161

2 Chinese 162

2.1 The default aspect strategy 163

2.2 Applying the binary system to Chinese 170

2.3 Another look at the aspectual markers guo and le 175

3 Russian 179

3.1 Russian tense 180

3.2 Reinhart's system applied to English tense 182

3.3 Reinhart/Borik's system applied to Russian tense 185

3.4 The binary approach to Russian tense 191

7 Binary Tense in Languages with a Rich Tense System 199

2 French 201

2.1 The proposals by Imbs and Martin 203

2.2 Vet's subsystem for the written language 207

2.3 Vet's system for the spoken language 211

2.4 Making the French tense system binary 217

2.5 On the semantics of the three binary tense oppositions in French 221

2.6 The Passe Simple and the Passe Anterieur 225

2.7 Going South 230

3 Bulgarian 231

3.1 On the symmetry in the Bulgarian tense system 234

3.2 Lindstedt's attempt to make Reichenbach/Comrie binary 238

3.3 Crossing Tense and Aspect in Bulgarian 244

3.4 The Aorist in Bulgarian 248

4 Georgian 252

4.1 Georgian tense 253

4.2 Making the Georgian tense system binary 256

4.3 The Aorist 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.

ISBN:

9781575865645

1575865645

9781575865638

1575865637

OCLC:

225876093