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German Temporal Semantics

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German Temporal Semantics book

Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment

German Temporal Semantics

DOI link for German Temporal Semantics

German Temporal Semantics book

Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment
ByJohn A. Nerbonne
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1985
eBook Published 25 November 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537023
Pages 309 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315537023
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Nerbonne, J. (1985). German Temporal Semantics. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537023

First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description of natural language temporalia. The second chapter applies this theory to the analysis of temporal meaning in German. Frame adverbials, the Present and Past Tenses, duratives, aspectual adverbials using in, and the adverbials particle schon are examined. Chapter 3 provides a formal syntax to bear the semantic analysis proposed in the second chapter and the final chapter explores syntactic and semantic extensions of the fragment, showing how the Perfect, the particle noch, the passive, and a distinct reading of frame adverbials may be accommodated.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |1 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|54 pages

A Reichenbachian Tense Logic

chapter 2|68 pages

A Tense Logical Sketch of German

chapter 3|100 pages

A Fragment of German

chapter 4|66 pages

Extending the Fragment

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