Tenses, Dates and Times

• Authors: Kepa Korta , María Ponte
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a theory of utterance content that is neutral with respect to some of the key issues in the debate about the proper semantics of tense. Elaborating on some ideas from Korta & Perry (2011), we defend a proposal according to which utterances of both temporally specific and temporally unspecific sentences have a systematic variety of contents, from utterance-bound to incremental or referential. This analysis will shed some light on the contribution of tense to what is said by an utterance.

Keywords

EN

time; tense; critical pragmatics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 301-317

Dates

published

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Kepa Korta

• University of the Basque Country

author

María Ponte

• University of Seville

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rela-2015-0002