This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural
languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have …

In Chris has left York, it is clear that the event in question, Chris's leaving York, has occurred
in the past, for example yesterday at ten. Why is it impossible, then, to make this event time …

In this paper I investigate two theories of tense in intensional contexts, an extensional and
an intensional one. The extensional theory, which I call the Independent Theory, maintains …

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial
areas of grammar. Prior to the book's original publication, the problems and interest in the …

The primary goal of coherence theory is to provide an explanation for the coherence
properties of discourse: what properties distinguish a discourse from a mere collection of …

This study deals with the question what enables readers and hearers of English and Dutch
discourse to arrive at an adequate understanding of the temporal ordering of the situations …

This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early
Vedic, the language of the" Rigveda." Although numerous studies have examined the …

This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse.
Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing …

Nontensed intensional complements in English often have a future interpretation.(1a–g)
illustrate this, respectively, for a control to-infinitive, raising-to-object toinfinitive, raising-to …

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal
reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus …