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James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199239320
ISBN-139780199239320
eBay Product ID (ePID)71679734
Product Key Features
Number of Pages276 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTense, Aspect, and Indexicality
Publication Year2009
SubjectLanguage, General, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
AuthorJames Higginbotham
SeriesOxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal401
Lc Classification NumberP107
Table of ContentIntroduction1. On Events in Linguistic Semantics2. Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence3. Tensed Toughts4. Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard5. Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory?6. The Anaphoric Theory of Tense7. Accomplishments8. The English progressive9. The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events10. Competence With Demonstratives11. A Plea for Implicit Anaphora12. Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person, Introduction1: On Events in Linguistic Semantics2: Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence3: Tensed Toughts4: Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard5: Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory?6: The Anaphoric Theory of Tense7: Accomplishments8: The English progressive9: The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events10: Competence With Demonstratives11: A Plea for Implicit Anaphora12: Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person
