Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their human participants. How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, offers a way to address this problem. The studies collected in The Syntax of Time investigate whether problems concerning the construal of tense and aspect can be reduced to syntactic problems for which the basic mechanism and principles of generative grammar already provide solutions.These studies, recent work by leading international scholars in the field, offer varied perspectives on the syntax of tense and the temporal construal of events: models of tense interpretation, construal of verbal forms, temporal aspect versus lexical aspect, the relation between the event and its argument structure, and the interaction of case with aktionsart or tense construal. Advances in the theory of temporal interpretation in the sentence are also applied to the temporal interpretation of nominals.
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Jacqueline Lecarme is a researcher in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris 7.
Jaqueline Guéron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Paris III.
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spatially extended configuration, aspectual periphrases, noncancelable implicature, present tense paradox, salient past time, spatial delimiter, aspect periphrases, tense construal, inertial with respect, centripetal coincidence, temporal argument structure, supine nominal, central coincidence, imperfective verbal forms, derived accomplishments, anteriority relationship, eventuality modification, cantare habui, culmination implication, standard indicative conditionals, supine suffix, complex event analysis, lexical accomplishments, accomplishment template, aspectual focus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Placido Domingo, Linguistic Inquiry, New York, Oxford University Press, Fassi Fehri, Mount Monadnock, Cornell University, Van Valin, Cambridge University Press, Rappaport Hovav, University of Massachusetts, Jacqueline Guéron, Jacqueline Lecarme, John Benjamins, Université Paris, University of California, Vulgar Latin, Classical Latin, Natural Language Semantics, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, International Round Table, Chicago Linguistic Society, Montague Grammar, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria New!
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An analysis of the syntax of time must include a syntax-based theory of tense construal and of event construal, and an algorithm for inserting events in time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spatially extended configuration, aspectual periphrases, noncancelable implicature, present tense paradox, salient past time, spatial delimiter, aspect periphrases, tense construal, inertial with respect, centripetal coincidence, temporal argument structure, supine nominal, central coincidence, imperfective verbal forms, derived accomplishments, anteriority relationship, eventuality modification, cantare habui, culmination implication, standard indicative conditionals, supine suffix, complex event analysis, lexical accomplishments, accomplishment template, aspectual focus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Placido Domingo, Linguistic Inquiry, New York, Oxford University Press, Fassi Fehri, Mount Monadnock, Cornell University, Van Valin, Cambridge University Press, Rappaport Hovav, University of Massachusetts, Jacqueline Guéron, Jacqueline Lecarme, John Benjamins, Université Paris, University of California, Vulgar Latin, Classical Latin, Natural Language Semantics, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, International Round Table, Chicago Linguistic Society, Montague Grammar, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria New!
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- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on 14 pages
- Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Hagit Borer in Front Matter, and page 215
- Semantic Structures (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Ray S. Jackendoff in Front Matter
- Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Ray S. Jackendoff in Front Matter
- An Essay on Stress (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Morris Halle in Front Matter
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- Perfect Explorations (Interface Explorations, 2) by Artemis Alexiadou on page 96, and page 97
- Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk (Studies in Generative Grammar) by et al. Hans Broekhuis (Editor) on page 494, and page 513
- Theories of Case (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Miriam Butt on page 146
- Situations and Individuals (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Paul D. Elbourne in Back Matter
- Nels 36: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (Volume 2) by Christopher Davis on page 95
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