Time and the verb : a guide to tense and aspect /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Binnick, Robert I. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | xxiii, 554 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1093992 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Part I. Tense
- 1.. Ancient Theories of the Simple Tenses
- a.. The Problem of Tense
- b.. Tense in Greek
- c.. The Greek Verb
- d.. The Relations of the Tenses
- e.. The Stoic-Varronian Theory of Tense and Aspect
- 2.. Traditional Theories of the Complex Tenses
- a.. General and Rational Grammar
- b.. The Problem of Complex Tenses
- c.. Theories of Relative Tense
- d.. Aspectual and Other Theories
- e.. Tense in Non-Indo-European Languages
- f.. Jespersen's Structuralist Approach to Tense
- g.. Retrospective and Prospective Tenses
- 3.. Modern Theories of the Subordinate Tenses
- a.. Mood and Tense
- b.. Mood in Subordinate Structures
- c.. Tense in Subordinate Structures
- d.. Sequence of Tense Rules
- e.. Non-finites and Tense
- f.. The Uses of the Perfect Tenses
- g.. Context and Autonomy
- h.. Multidimensional Theories: Reichenbach and Bull
- i.. Allen on the Futurates
- 4.. Beyond Theories of Tense
- Part II. Aspect
- 5.. The Problem of Aspect
- a.. Slavic Aspect
- b.. Aspect and Aktionsarten
- c.. Opposition and Markedness
- d.. The Analysis of Greek
- 6.. Explanation in Aspectology
- a.. Aristotelian Aspect
- b.. The Ontology of Situations
- c.. States
- d.. Activities and Events
- e.. Telicness and Performances
- f.. Phase
- g.. Phase and the Aktionsarten
- h.. Defining Aspect
- 7.. Formal Semantics of Tense and Aspect
- a.. Theories of Semantics
- b.. Referential Semantics
- c.. Formal, Truth-Conditional Semantics
- d.. Montague Semantics
- e.. Semantic Interpretation
- f.. The Formal Semantics of the Priorian Tense Operators
- g.. The Present and the Future
- h.. Semantic Interpretation of the Tense Operators
- i.. Complex Tenses and Compositionality
- j.. The Perfect
- k.. Translation and Interpretation of the Perfect
- l.. The Compositionality of the Perfect
- m.. The Futurate Perfect
- n.. The Progressive
- o.. Formal Semantics of the Progressive
- p.. Imperfective and Perfective
- q.. Temporal Adverbials
- r.. Time Adverbials and the Adverbial Scope Paradox
- s.. Multidimensional Indexing
- t.. Events and Aktionsarten
- u.. A Formal Semantic Theory with Events
- v.. Situation Semantics
- 8.. Beyond the Semantics of Tense and Aspect
- a.. Pragmatics and Sequence of Tense Phenomena
- b.. The R-point Solution and Its Failure
- c.. Syntactic Theories of SOT and Their Failure
- d.. Semantic Problems for the Syntactic Solution
- e.. Pragmatic Theories of Tense and Aspect: Use and Meaning
- f.. Aspect, Foregrounding, and Backgrounding
- g.. Salience and Relevance
- h.. Shift of Past to Present: The Perfect
- i.. Modal Functions of the Perfect
- j.. Shift of Past to Present: The Historical Tenses
- k.. Shift of Future to Present: The Futurates
- l.. Shift of Present and Future to Past
- m.. Toward a Formal Theory of Discourse Tense: Events and Discourses
- n.. The Pragmatics of Discourse Tense
- o.. Perspective
- p.. Orientation
- q.. Localization
- r.. Tenseless Languages: The Problem of the Semitic Verb
- s.. The Problem of Waw and the Pragmatics of the Semitic Verb
- t.. "Tenseless" Languages
- u.. Beyond Tense and Aspect
- Summary
- a.. Tense
- b.. Topical Summary
- c.. Aspect
- d.. The Formal Semantics of Tense and Aspect
- e.. Pragmatics
- Envoi
- Notes
- References
- Index