Situations, Tense, and Aspect: Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English

Renate Bartsch

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Situations, Tense, and Aspect

Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English

Language: English

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

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 1. Events as intensional entities

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 2. The delineation of basic situations and constellations

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 6. Expressions of identity conditions

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 7. Entities of types (i,e) and (i,s): roles and institutions

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies

Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 9. Conclusion

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 1. The model of regions and situations

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 2. An overview of Tenses and Aspects

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions

Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 7. Conclusion

Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 1. Scope phenomena

Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes

Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 3. Conclusion

Chapter 4. Summary and Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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