Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: the function of participles

Bary, Corien; Haug, Dag

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“…In some of these, such constructions have fully subordinating properties (Kazenin 1999, Creissels 2010). It is not clear whether converbs can be considered semantically coordinating in these cases, but see Bary & Haug (2011), where a semantics quite close to coordinating has been proposed for converbally-used participles in Ancient Greek. Therefore, the area where the three-level mismatch theory can be applied is wider than what is covered by this paper.…”

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Systematic mismatches: Coordination and subordination at three levels of grammar

Belyaev

2014

J. Ling.

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In this paper, I analyze two clause combining strategies in Ossetic that exhibit mixed properties between coordination and subordination. I argue that the ‘mismatch approach’ proposed by Culicover & Jackendoff (1997) and Yuasa & Sadock (2002) is best suited to account for their properties. However, in order to adequately describe the behavior of these constructions in terms of the mismatch approach, appealing to three levels of grammar is required instead of two levels (syntax and semantics) discussed in previous works. This provides a clear argument in favor of models of grammar such as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), where the syntactic level is split between constituent structure (c-structure) and functional structure (f-structure). The properties of semantic coordination and subordination that have been proposed in earlier work mostly belong to the level of f-structure, and not semantics proper. I argue that the only substantial semantic difference between coordination and adverbial subordination is that the former introduces discourse relations between speech acts, while the latter introduces asserted predicates that link two propositions within the same speech act. I provide definitions of coordination and subordination at all the three levels of grammar formalized in terms of the LFG framework, and discuss the tests that can be used for each of these levels.

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Systematic mismatches: Coordination and subordination at three levels of grammar

Belyaev

2014

J. Ling.

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“…See for example Rijksbaron (2002:11,12) for the summarising aorist (here γενέσθαι 'be') and Kamp and Rohrer (1983) for similar French examples with the passé simple and imparfait. For an analysis of the temporal behaviour of Ancient Greek participles in discourse, see Bary and Haug (2011). 10) In a non-dynamic account, such as von Stechow's, anaphoric topic times are modeled as a free variables, which means that they are treated as referential expressions that get their interpretation from an assignment function.…”

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Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

Bary¹

2012

J Greek Linguist

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This paper shows that tenses in Ancient Greek reports have both an anaphoric and a shifted-indexical component. It develops a new account of Ancient Greek tenses that deals with this combination of features. Following Klein's (1994) semantics of tense, I claim that tense indicates the relation between an anaphoric topic time and the moment of utterance, the now. As for Ancient Greek indirect discourse, I argue that the anaphoric component works exactly the same as in non-embedded discourse (contra von Stechow 1995). The indexical component, however, is di ferent in that the now is not provided by the actual context of utterance, but by the reported context. The DRT account developed models this combination of features, taking also into account the role of aspect.

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“…While Bary (2009a) formulates the default rules for sequences of main clauses and Bary and Haug (2011) investigate the role of participles, the contribution of other kinds of clauses and discourse structure (often indicated by particles) is still to be investigated for Ancient Greek.…”

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“…8 See Bary and Haug (2011) for an analysis of the role of participle clauses in determining the topic time.…”

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Variety in Ancient Greek aspect interpretation

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Egg

2012

Linguist and Philos

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The wide range of interpretations of aoristic and imperfective aspect in Ancient Greek cannot be attributed to unambiguous aspectual operators but suggest an analysis in terms of coercion in the spirit of de Swart (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 16:347-385, 1998). But since such an analysis cannot explain the Ancient Greek data, we combine Klein's (Time in language, 1994) theory of tense and aspect with Egg's (Flexible semantics for reinterpretation phenomena, 2005) aspectual coercion approach. Following Klein, (grammatical) aspect relates the runtime of an eventuality and the current time of reference (topic time). We claim that these relations can trigger aspectual selection restrictions (and subsequent aspectual coercions) just like e.g. aspectually relevant temporal adverbials, and are furthermore susceptible to the Duration Principle of Egg (Flexible semantics for reinterpretation phenomena, 2005): Properties of eventualities must be compatible with respect to the duration they specify for an eventuality. The Duration Principle guides the selection between different feasible coercion operators in cases of aspectual coercion but can also trigger coercions of its own. We analyse the interpretations of aorist and imperfective as cases of coercion that avoid impending violations of aspectual selection restrictions or of the Duration Principle, which covers cases that are problematic for de Swart's (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 16:347-385, 1998) analysis.

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Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: the function of participles

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Systematic mismatches: Coordination and subordination at three levels of grammar

Systematic mismatches: Coordination and subordination at three levels of grammar

Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

Variety in Ancient Greek aspect interpretation

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