Ling315: Hauptseminar
Tense
Prof. Maribel Romero and Prof. Arnim von Stechow maribel.romero@uni-konstanz.de arnim.stechow@me.com
WiSe 2008-09 Wednesdays 10-12h, G307
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This seminar will be concerned with the semantics of tense. The main question is how morphological tense is interpreted in matrix and embedded clauses of different types, paying close attention to sequence of tense phenomena (consecutio temporum) and the interaction between temporal binding and scope. Further, it will be investigated how the meaning of tense combines compositionally with temporal modifiers and modal elements.
PREREQUISITES: Basic knowledge of Semantics (e.g. from Ling115)
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Attendance and class participation
Class presentation (Referat) and term paper (Hausarbeit)
OFFICE HOURS: Prof. Maribel Romero
G100 during the "Sanierung"; G212 afterwards Tuesdays 15-16h, Thursdays 12-13h
Prof. Arnim von Stechow G100 temporarily???
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I. The basic architecture of tense. Simple sentences.
Heim, I. 1997. Tense in compositional semantics: introduction. Lecture notes from the Semantics Seminar at MIT, Spring 1997.
Ogihara, T. 2006. “Tense, Adverbials and Quantification” in Zanuttini, Raffaella, Hector Campos, Elena Herburger and Paul Portner (eds.) Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture:
Cross-linguistics Investigations. Georgetown University Press.
Enç, M. 1985. Towards a referential analysis of temporal expressions, Linguistics & Philosophy 9: 405-426.
Cresswell, J. M. 1990. Entities and indices. Kluwer.
Musan, R. 2002. German Perfect: Its Semantic Composition and its Interaction with Temporal Adverbials. Springer.
II. Tense in Complement Clauses: Sequence of Tense.
Abusch, D. 1997. Sequence of tense and temporal de re, Linguistics & Philosophy 20, 1-50.
Kusumoto, K. 1999. Tense in embedded contexts, UMass Ph.D. thesis.
Stechow, A. 2008. Tense, Modals, and Attitudes as Verbal Quantifiers, paper at the ESSLLI 2008 workshop "What Syntax feeds Semantics?". Available at: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/esslli/Slides/Hamburg08_Arnim.doc.pdf
Gennari, S. 2003. Tense Meanings and Temporal Interpretation, Journal of Semantics 20: 35-71. Available at:
http://homepage.mac.com/silvia_gennari/pubs/assets/JoS.pdf
III. Tense in Adjunct Clauses: Relative Clauses and Temporal Clauses.
Hanämäki, O. 1972. Before, Papers from the 8th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, pp. 139–151. ??????or??????
Hanämäki, O. 1974. Semantics of English Temporal Connectives, PhD thesis, University of Indiana at Bloomington.
Beaver, D. and C. Condoravdi. 2003. A Uniform Analysis of Before and After. In Rob Young and Yuping Zhou (eds), Proceedings of SALT XIII, CLC Publications, Cornell, pp. 37--54. Available at: https://webspace.utexas.edu/dib97/salt13.pdf.
