Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-923932-0 (ISBN)
James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference. The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all those involved in the study of current semantics, and its interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields.
James Higginbotham is Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was formerly Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the nature of linguistic competence, problems of compositionality, and indexical reference in thought and communication. He has published widely in linguistics and philosophy and is equally at home in both fields.
Introduction ; 1. On Events in Linguistic Semantics ; 2. Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence ; 3. Tensed Toughts ; 4. Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard ; 5. Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory? ; 6. The Anaphoric Theory of Tense ; 7. Accomplishments ; 8. The English progressive ; 9. The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events ; 10. Competence With Demonstratives ; 11. A Plea for Implicit Anaphora ; 12. Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.10.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
| Zusatzinfo | Line Drawings |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 438 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-923932-0 / 0199239320 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-923932-0 / 9780199239320 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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