Title | The German Perfect [electronic resource] : Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials / edited by Renate Musan |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0552-4 |
Descript | XI, 275 p. online resource |
1: Introduction -- 1. Outline -- 2. Tense and aspect -- 3. Contexts and temporal specifications -- 4. The tenses in German -- 5. Temporal interpretation and individuals -- 6. A formal semantic implementation of tense and aspect -- 7. Conclusion -- 2: The Semantics Of The Present Perfect -- 1. Perfectly compositional -- 2. The morphosyntactic source of the anteriority component -- 3. The stativity of perfect constructions -- 4. Identifying the synchronic anteriority component: an optimality approach to focus effects -- 5. Conclusion, formal semantic account, and refinements -- 3: The Meaning Effects Of The Present Perfect -- 1. The problem -- 2. The effects of the present perfect -- 3. Previous accounts -- 4. How pragmatic principles operate on the semantics -- 5. Why past tense and present perfect often can be substituted by each other -- 6. Completedness effects -- 7. Indefiniteness effects -- 8. Present relevance -- 9. Stage-level-to-individual-level switches: Mozartโs lung disease -- 10. Individual-level-to-stage-level switches: temporary intelligence -- 11. English vs. German: Einstein and Princeton -- 12. Conclusion -- 4: Types Of Temporal Adverbials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Quantificational adverbials, position adverbials, and duration adverbials -- 3. Duration adverbials and situation types -- 4. Distinguishing position and duration adverbials -- 5. The interpretation of nonquantificational temporal adverbials -- 5: Interactions With Temporal Adverbials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The formal integration of temporal adverbials in semantic representations -- 3. Temporal adverbials on the tense level, aspect level, and participle level -- 4. Temporal adverbials as frame-setting modifiers -- 5. Temporal adverbials as restrictors of nontemporal quantifiers -- 6. Temporal adverbials below the participle level -- 7. Temporal adverbials with quantificational and nonquantificational components -- 8. Iteration of adverbials on a single level -- 9. On universal perfect readings -- 10. Remarks concerning negation -- 11. Summary -- 6: The Contribution Of Particular Adverbials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Seit-adverbials: โup-to-TTโ interpretations -- 3. Extended now theories of perfect constructions: apparent evidence by up-to-TT-adverbials and why it is misleading -- 4. Existential and universal perfect readings -- 5. Temporal bis-adverbials: โTT-independentโ interpretations -- 6. Temporal in-adverbials -- 7. Adverbials of the type x-lang -- 8. Conclusion -- 7: Temporal Subordinate Clauses, Conjunctions, And Matrix Clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2.โ simultaneityโ between main clause and subclause -- 3. Time parameters of the main clause before time parameters of the subclause -- 4. Time parameters of the main clause after time parameters of the subclause -- 5. Durational subclauses: solange (โas long asโ) -- 6. Conclusion -- 8: On The Syntax Of Temporal Adverbials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The unmarked surface order of temporal adverbials of a single level -- 3. Preposing of temporal adverbials in English -- 4. โTopicalizationโ of temporal adverbials in German -- 5. Scrambling of temporal adverbials -- 6. Summary: base positions and surface positions of temporal adverbials -- 9: Conclusion -- References