Word Meaning and Montague Grammar

Dowty, David R.

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“…After having applied Te Winkel's vision about n in earlier publications on binary tense, Verkuyl (2008: 75-88) broke away from the habit of taking n as the present, in particular from the problematic and unnatural notion of an Extended Now, as used in Dowty (1979), Von Stechow (1999), Rathert (2003), among many others. This break enables one to see the essence of tense as a way to relate the present of speaker/hearer to the present of an eventuality (we will come back to that notion shortly).…”

Section: Figure 3: the Present Domain Imentioning

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“…The index β originates from (28a) 23 Dowty (1979), Landman (1992), Portner (1998), Rothstein (2004), Hallman (2009), Sun (2014, among many others. Arche (2014: 808) comes close to splitting PROG into BE+ING in her diagram (39a) for the form estaba coloreando 'was coloring' where -ing stands for the comma-interpretation of ASP (see Figure 1), but she uses the same structure in her representation (39b) for the IMP-form coloreaba, in which the comma stands for an empty node.…”

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“…This raises the question of whether the progressive gloss in (1c) is correct or not. Verkuyl (2017) rejects the popular analysis of the English Progressive Form in terms of one operator PROG-as in PROG(φ) on the basis of Dowty (1979), or in PROG(VP), proposed by Landman (1992); see also Lee (2007)-in favour of splitting PROG into two units: PROG for the copula and ING for the main verb. This makes it impossible to assume an IMP-operator for the Progressive Form as a whole and it excludes the assumption of translational equivalence: cantaba in (1a) cannot be seen as identical in meaning to its gloss 'was singing' and the same holds for the translation pairs in (1b) and (1c).…”

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

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ABSTRACT. The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive). For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approach leads to covering twelve of them. Their relation with the preterital forms outside the range of the three oppositions is accounted for by two surgical operations: (a) the notion of Imperfect(ive) is severed from the notion of ongoing progress by restricting it to underinformation about completion and by seeing continuous tense forms as involving a more complex semantics; (b) the notion of (non-)stative is strictly severed from interference of information coming from the arguments of a verb. These theoretical moves make the way free for a formal-semantic insight into the interaction of Spanish tense and aspect. It also paves the way for a principled distinction between completion and anteriority. Restricted to tense forms pertaining to the past, our analysis sheds light on the struggle for survival of tense forms outside the binary system. Keywords: tense, aspect, perfecto, pluscuamperfecto, imperfecto, indefinido, completion, aorist, anteriority, stative, nonstative, discrete, continuous, progressive, terminative, durative RESUMEN. El presente trabajo pretende describir y explicar las siguientes formas verbales del castellano: Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto e Indefinido aplicando tres oposiciones temporales binarias: Presente vs Pasado, Sincrónico vs Posterior e Imperfecto/imperfectivo vs Perfecto/perfectivo. Este acercamiento binario cubre doce de las dieciséis formas temporales del castellano analizadas. La relación entre las formas verbales que entran en el sistema binario y las formas de pretérito que no entran en el sistema se explica por dos operaciones quirúrgicas: (a) la noción de Imperfecto/imperfectivo se separa de la noción de progresivo continuo, restringiendo el valor del Imperfecto/imperfectivo a la subinformación sobre su terminación e implicando una semántica más compleja para las formas temporales progresivas; (b) la noción de (no) estatividad está estrictamente separada de la interferencia de la información aspectual procedente de los argumentos de un verbo. Estos movimientos teóricos dan vía libre a una comprensión formal-semántica de la interacción del tiempo y del aspecto en castellano. También allana el camino para una distinción argumentada entre las nociones de terminación y anterioridad. Limitado a formas verbales del pasado, nuestro análisis ilumina la batalla por la supervivencia de las formas temporales fuera del sistema binario.

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Section: Figure 3: the Present Domain Imentioning

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Section: The Spanish Progressivementioning

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

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“…Capitalizing on the recent literature on the English progressive (Dowty 1979, Asher 1992, Landman 1992, Glasbey 1996, Naumann & Pifion 1997, Bonomi 1997, one can say that three factors influence the use of the progressive. -A mereological fa ctor.…”

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Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

Jayez

1999

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“…(SS) 'Yesterday, I read the report until nine in the evening' receives in SS the so-called incomplete event interpretation characteristic of acomplishments with durative adverbials (Vendler 1967, Dowty 1979:57, Dahl 1981, García Fernández 2000, Rothstein 2004, Csirmaz 2012, among many others). Nevertheless, in M&CS (6) is interpreted as 'Yesterday, I did not begin to read the report before nine in the evening', that is, the accomplishment is coerced into an achievement by focalizing its initial phase, which gives rise to an inchoative reading.…”

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Temporal prepositions and intervals in Spanish. Variation in the grammar of "hasta" and "desde"

Bosque

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2015

isogloss

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In some varieties of American Spanish, the temporal preposition hasta 'until' is able to modify telic predicates in the absence of negation. Previous analyses argue for either a hidden negation or a special punctual reading of this preposition. We show that these analyses make a number of wrong predictions, and must be abandoned. Our account hinges on the idea that hasta licenses a temporal phase previous to the telic predicate, somehow similar to the one that in PP adjuncts (in one hour) create in English and many other languages in similar structures. We also show that desde ('since') is able to behave in a parallel way in some varieties of American Spanish, thus licensing intervals subsequent to temporal points. Several arguments are presented favouring compositional analyses of these (and some other) temporal prepositions subject to Aktionsart restrictions, as opposed to approaches which introduce lexical multiplication of senses.

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Word Meaning and Montague Grammar

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

Temporal prepositions and intervals in Spanish. Variation in the grammar of "hasta" and "desde"

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