James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
