Temporal Prepositions and Temporal Generalized Quantifiers  

Oleh:

Pratt, Ian ; Francez, Nissim

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 24 no. 2 (Apr. 2001), page 187-222.
Fulltext: 25001810.pdf (3.48MB)

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In this paper, we show how the problem of accounting for the semantics of temporal preposition phrases (tPPs) leads us to some surprising insights into the semantics of temporal expressions in general. Specifically, we argue that a systematic treatment of English tPPs is greatly facilitated if we endow our meaning assignments with context vari ables, a device which allows a tPP to restrict domains of quantification arising elsewhere in a sentence. We observe that the use of context variables implies that tPPs can modify expressions in two ways, and we use this observation to predict the behaviour of tPPs whose complements are themselves modified by other tPPs.

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