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    Events, states and times : an essay on narrative discourse in English (2016)
    Berlin ; : De Gruyter Open,
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    Content: This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that 'now' seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse. The theme of the second part of the monograph is the semantics and pragmatics of tense. A key innovation is that the present and past tenses are treated as scalar alternatives, a view that is motivated by adopting a particular hypothesis concerning stative predication. The proposed analysis accounts for tense in both matrix clauses and in complements of propositional attitudes, where the notorious double access reading arises. This reading is explored as part of a corpus study that provides a glimpse of how tense semantics interacts with Gricean principles and at-issueness. Several cross-linguistic predictions of the analysis are considered, including their consequences for the Sequence of Tense phenomenon and the Upper Limit Constraint. Finally, a hypothesis is provided about how tense meanings compose with temporal adverbs and verb phrases. Two influential analysis of viewpoint aspect are then compared in light of the hypothesis. The monograph is directed at graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language. The analysis of narrative discourse that is developed in the monograph synthesizes and builds on prior collaborative research with Corien Bary, Valentine Hacquard, Thomas Roberts, Roger Schwarzschild, Una Stojnić, Károly Varasdi and Aaron White. Daniel Altshuler is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Part I: Narrative progression: From discourse connectivity to event partitivity -- , 1. Preliminary thoughts: Narrative discourse -- , 2. Prominence: A look at 'now' -- , 3. Coherence: A look at NARRATION and RESULT -- , Appendices -- , Part II: Semantics and pragmatics of tense: The nuts and bolts -- , 4. Cessation and double access -- , 5. Sequence of tense -- , 6. Concluding thoughts: Ways of composing with viewpoint aspect -- , Bibliography , In English.
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    Events, states and times : a collaborative essay on narrative discourse in English (2016)
    Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open
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    Events, States and Times : An essay on narrative discourse in English (2016)
    Warsaw ;Berlin : De Gruyter Open
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    Content: This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb ‘now’ and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that ‘now’ seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse. The theme of the second part of the monograph is the semantics and pragmatics of tense. A key innovation is that the present and past tenses are treated as scalar alternatives, a view that is motivated by adopting a particular hypothesis concerning stative predication. The proposed analysis accounts for tense in both matrix clauses and in complements of propositional attitudes, where the notorious double access reading arises. This reading is explored as part of a corpus study that provides a glimpse of how tense semantics interacts with Gricean principles and at-issueness. Several cross-linguistic predictions of the analysis are considered, including their consequences for the Sequence of Tense phenomenon and the Upper Limit Constraint. Finally, a hypothesis is provided about how tense meanings compose with temporal adverbs and verb phrases. Two influential analysis of viewpoint aspect are then compared in light of the hypothesis. The monograph is directed at graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics an
    Note: Open Access , Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Part I: Narrative progression: From discourse connectivity to event partitivity -- -- 1. Preliminary thoughts: Narrative discourse -- -- 2. Prominence: A look at ‘now’ -- -- 3. Coherence: A look at narration and result -- -- Appendices -- -- Part II: Semantics and pragmatics of tense: The nuts and bolts -- -- 4. Cessation and double access -- -- 5. Sequence of tense -- -- 6. Concluding thoughts: Ways of composing with viewpoint aspect -- -- Bibliography , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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    Linguistics meets philosophy / (2023)
    Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY, USA :Cambridge University Press,
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    Format: 1 online resource (lvi, 551 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
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    Content: Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of research within both fields, such as reporting and ascribing, describing and referring, narrating and structuring, locating in time and space, typologizing and ontologizing, determining and questioning, arguing and rejecting, and implying and (pre-)supposing. Each chapter takes on a phenomena and explores it through a set of questions which are posed and answered at the outset of each chapter. An accessible and engaging resource, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines, and will empower exciting and illuminating conversations for years to come.
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    Coordination and the syntax-discourse interface (2022)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 315 Seiten) , Diagramme
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    Content: The goal of this book is to explore interactions between syntactic structure and discourse structure, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. This is the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date. This is a consequence of the theoretical breadth of the survey undertaken: extraction from coordinate structures is, at first blush, a syntactic matter, but the survey ranges far beyond syntax, and this breadth raises theoretical and empirical questions across syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse structure. A complete survey of extraction from coordinate structure must pay attention to all of these domains, and their interactions. Instead of aiming to promote a single analysis, this survey motivates reasonable hypotheses which allow one to reason deductively from empirical facts to theoretical conclusions. The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories, and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. However, in many cases, the necessary empirical work has not yet been done, and too much of the literature revolves around the same handful of examples, mainly in English. We hope that this book will inspire further work on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in understudied languages, and provide a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.
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    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Altshuler, Daniel, 1981 - Coordination and the syntax-discourse interface Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780198804246
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    Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , English Studies
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Syntax ; Diskursanalyse ; Koordination
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    A course in semantics (2019)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
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    Format: xviii, 225 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9780262042772
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    Linguistics meets philosophy (2023)
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    ISBN: 9781108487290 , 9781108720021
    Content: "Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of research within both fields, such as reporting and ascribing, describing and referring, narrating and structuring, locating in time and space, typologizing and ontologizing, determining and questioning, arguing and rejecting, and implying and (pre-)supposing. Each chapter takes on a phenomena and explores it through a set of questions which are posed and answered at the outset of each chapter. An accessible and engaging resource, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines, and will empower exciting and illuminating conversations for years to come"--
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    Keywords: Semantik ; Linguistik ; Philosophie ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Coordination and the Syntax â€" Discourse Interface (2022)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Format: 336 p , illustrations(colour)
    ISBN: 9780191842436
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    Content: The goal of this book is to explore interactions between syntactic structure and discourse structure, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. This is the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date. This is a consequence of the theoretical breadth of the survey undertaken: extraction from coordinate structures is, at first blush, a syntactic matter, but the survey ranges far beyond syntax, and this breadth raises theoretical and empirical questions across syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse structure. A complete survey of extraction from coordinate structure must pay attention to all of these domains, and their interactions. Instead of aiming to promote a single analysis, this survey motivates reasonable hypotheses which allow one to reason deductively from empirical facts to theoretical conclusions. The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories, and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. However, in many cases, the necessary empirical work has not yet been done, and too much of the literature revolves around the same handful of examples, mainly in English. We hope that this book will inspire further work on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in understudied languages, and provide a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.
    Note: 1 Introduction -- 2 What is coordination? -- 3 Extraction from coordinate structures -- 4 Syntax calls the shots -- 5 Discourse calls the shots -- 6 Discourse structure, information structure, coordination, and extraction -- 7 Conclusion
    Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780198804239
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    Linguistics meets philosophy / (2023)
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (lvi, 551 Seiten).
    ISBN: 978-1-108-76640-1
    Content: Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of research within both fields, such as reporting and ascribing, describing and referring, narrating and structuring, locating in time and space, typologizing and ontologizing, determining and questioning, arguing and rejecting, and implying and (pre-)supposing. Each chapter takes on a phenomena and explores it through a set of questions which are posed and answered at the outset of each chapter. An accessible and engaging resource, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines, and will empower exciting and illuminating conversations for years to come
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    Events, States and Times : An essay on narrative discourse in English (2016)
    Warschau/Berlin :De Gruyter,
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    Format: 1 online resource (ix, 165 pages)
    Content: This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that 'now' seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse. The theme of the second part of the monograph is the semantics and pragmatics of tense. A key innovation is that the present and past tenses are treated as scalar alternatives, a view that is motivated by adopting a particular hypothesis concerning stative predication. The proposed analysis accounts for tense in both matrix clauses and in complements of propositional attitudes, where the notorious double access reading arises. This reading is explored as part of a corpus study that provides a glimpse of how tense semantics interacts with Gricean principles and at-issueness. Several cross-linguistic predictions of the analysis are considered, including their consequences for the Sequence of Tense phenomenon and the Upper Limit Constraint. Finally, a hypothesis is provided about how tense meanings compose with temporal adverbs and verb phrases. Two influential analysis of viewpoint aspect are then compared in light of the hypothesis. The monograph is directed at graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics an.
    Note: Acknowledgments; Part I: Narrative progression: From discourse connectivity to event partitivity; 1 Preliminary thoughts: Narrative discourse; 2 Prominence: A look at 'now'; 2.1 Challenges to Kamp's principle; 2.2 Time prominence account of 'now'; 2.2.1 Coherence and temporal anaphora; 2.2.2 Beyond the time prominence account of 'now'; 2.3 'Now' seeks prominent final states; 2.4 Two consequences of the proposal; 2.4.1 Is `now' a pure indexical?; 2.4.2 Times versus states; 3 Coherence: A look at narration and result; 3.1 Delimiting the task; 3.2 narration and result. 3.2.1 Hobbs1985 on occasion3.2.2 The definition of narration; 3.2.3 The definition of result; 3.2.4 A minimal ontology; 3.2.5 The relationship between narration and result; 3.3 Abducing structural constraints on EDUs; 3.3.1 Structural laws; 3.3.2 Possibilities for EDUs; Appendices; A Narrative progression with statives?; B Derivations; B.1 Deriving ; B.2 Absurd consequences; Part II: Semantics and pragmatics of tense: The nuts and bolts; 4 Cessation and double access; 4.1 Temporal implicatures and temporal profile of statives; 4.2 Semantics of tense: First pass; 4.3 Double access. 4.3.1 Cessation and parentheticality4.3.2 Two complications; 4.3.3 Abusch's account of double access Heim-style; 4.3.4 The meaning of the present tense revisited; 4.4 Calculating cessation in embedded contexts; 5 Sequence of tense; 5.1 Relative present; 5.2 Simultaneous readings and tense shifting; 5.3 Alleged simultaneity with the progressive; 5.4 Final words on tense shifting: Evidence for and against; 5.5 ULC and beyond; 6 Concluding thoughts: Ways of composing with viewpoint aspect; 6.1 Towards a compositional semantics; 6.2 Viewpoint aspect. 6.2.1 The neo-Kleinian and Bach/Krifka analyses6.2.2 Comparing the two analyses; Bibliography.
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