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Situations, Tense, and Aspect
Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English
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Situations, Tense, and Aspect
Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Discourse Ontology
- Chapter 1 The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse
- 1. Events as intensional entities
- 2. The delineation of basic situations and constellations
- 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations
- 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference
- 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions
- 6. Expressions of identity conditions
- 7. Entities of types (i,e) and (i,s): roles and institutions
- 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies
- 9. Conclusion
- Part II The Temporal Order: Tense and Aspect in Discourse
- Chapter 2 The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart
- 1. The model of regions and situations
- 2. An overview of Tenses and Aspects
- 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time
- 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system
- 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times
- 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms
- 1. Scope phenomena
- 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes
- 3. Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index