Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English

Partee, Barbara H.

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“…With Chomsky (1986), I assume that finite V-raising to T is A-movement, and that T can be considered an A-head, perhaps because it is similar to a name and not a bearer of scope (Partee 1973(Partee , 1984En9 1987;Gu6ron 1990). The auxiliary itself is a functional one in that its properties are similar to those of T, therefore, it counts as an A-head.…”

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Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans

Rivero

1994

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans

Rivero

1994

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“…We are therefore able to capture the systematic anaphoric and quantificational parallels between the individual and modal domains argued for in Frank (1996), van Rooy (1998), Stone (1999), Bittner (2001) and Schlenker (2005) among others (building on Partee 1973Partee , 1984. (94) John x thinks w ½ w that he x will w catch a y fish and he x hopes w ¾ w,w ½ I will w ¾ grill it y tonight.…”

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The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts

Brașoveanu

2012

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Providing a compositional interpretation procedure for discourses in which descriptions of complex dependencies between interrelated objects are incrementally built is a key challenge for formal theories of natural language interpretation. This paper examines several quantificational phenomena and argues that we need richly structured contexts of interpretation that are passed on between different parts of the same sentence and also across sentential boundaries to account for these phenomena. The main contribution of the paper is showing how we can add structure to contexts in an incremental way, starting with the basic notion of context in classical first-order logic, i.e., interpretation contexts formalized as single total variable assignments.

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“…As such, they are rather like pronouns (cf. Partee 1973). For convenience the tense argument is represented in the syntax as well.…”

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Triggering verbal presuppositions

Abrusán¹

2010

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This paper offers a predictive mechanism to derive the presuppositions of verbs. The starting point is the intuition, dating back at least to Stalnaker 1974, that the information conveyed by a sentence that is in some sense independent from its main point is presupposed. The contribution of this paper is to spell out a mechanism for deciding what will become the main point of the sentence and how to calculate independence. It is proposed that this can be calculated by making reference to event times. As a very rough approximation, the main point of an utterance is what (in a sense to be defined) has to be about the event time of the matrix predicate and the information that the sentence conveys but is not (or does not have to be) about the event time of the matrix predicate is presupposed. The notion of aboutness used to calculate independence is based on Demolombe & Fariñas del Cerro 2000.

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Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English

Cited by 611 publications

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Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans

Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans

The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts

Triggering verbal presuppositions

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