Table of Contents
Frontmatter Introduction Part I. Discourse Ontology Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 1. Events as intensional entities Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 2. The delineation of basic situations and constellations Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 6. Expressions of identity conditions Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 7. Entities of types (i,e) and (i,s): roles and institutions Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 9. Conclusion Part II. The Temporal Order: Tense and Aspect in Discourse Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 1. The model of regions and situations Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 2. An overview of Tenses and Aspects Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 7. Conclusion Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 1. Scope phenomena Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 3. Conclusion Chapter 4. Summary and Conclusion Notes References Index