
Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
James Higginbotham(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 29. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-19-923932-0 (ISBN)
Description
James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference. The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all those involved in the study of current semantics, and its interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields.
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a valuable resource. * EunHee Lee, The Journal of Linguistics *More details
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-923932-0 (9780199239320)
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Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
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James Higginbotham is Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was formerly Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the nature of linguistic competence, problems of compositionality, and indexical reference in thought and communication. He has published widely in linguistics and philosophy and is equally at home in both fields.
Content
Introduction ; 1. On Events in Linguistic Semantics ; 2. Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence ; 3. Tensed Toughts ; 4. Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard ; 5. Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory? ; 6. The Anaphoric Theory of Tense ; 7. Accomplishments ; 8. The English progressive ; 9. The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events ; 10. Competence With Demonstratives ; 11. A Plea for Implicit Anaphora ; 12. Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person