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Author Bartsch, Renate, 1939-

Title Situations, Tense, and Aspect : Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Series Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics ; v. 13
Groningen-Amsterdam studies in semantics.
Contents Preface; Introduction; Part I Discourse Ontology; Chapter 1 The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse; 1. Events as intensional entities; 2. The delineation of basic situations and constellations; 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations; 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference; 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions; 6. Expressions of identity conditions; 7. Entities of types (i, e) and (i, s): roles and institutions; 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies; 9. Conclusion; Part II The Temporal Order: Tense and Aspect in Discourse
Chapter 2 The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart1. The model of regions and situations; 2. An overview of Tenses and Aspects; 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time; 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system; 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times; 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions; 7. Conclusion; Chapter 3 Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms; 1. Scope phenomena; 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes; 3. Conclusion; Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
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Subject German language -- Tense
German language -- Aspect
German language -- Discourse analysis
English language -- Tense.
English language -- Aspect.
English language -- Discourse analysis.
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German
English language -- Aspect.
English language -- Discourse analysis.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German.
English language -- Tense.
German language -- Aspect.
German language -- Discourse analysis.
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
German language -- Tense.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110814606
3110814609