Real tense and real aspect in mirativity

Tense, Aspect, and Argument Structure

This paper is concerned with an intriguing difference between Japanese and English involving the progressive form be V-ing and the -te iru form as well as the passive constructions in the two languages. Some of the complex semantic properties of the -te iru construction in Japanese are discussed in Ogihara (1998), where I present a proposal to account for the multiple interpretations associated...

Integrating tense , aspect and genericity

This paper proposes an integrated theory of tense, aspect and genericity building on the work of Moens (1987) for tense and aspect in English. I start by motivating the treatment of tense and genericity at the same level, by showing that (1) it is the same linguistic system that is at work in both cases; (2) there are some facts of language that only receive an adequate explanation if the two p...

A Tense And Aspect Calculus

This paper focuses on a theory of tense and aspect the representation of time in natural language that attempts a formal representation of the relevant lin guistic devices as implication rules in rst order logic It presents a rich ontology as far as verb aspect is concerned distinguishing between complex patterns and vagueness Examples and conclusions are drawn from the com parison between Engl...

Contrastive tense and aspect data

Foreword This report originated in a paper I was to write with Lauri Carlson on the semantics of tense and aspect, and which never became ready, since the formalization part could not be made good enough in the required schedule ((rst trimester of 1991). In the original paper, I tried to describe the data and propose a theory of my own. Now I decided to select only the description of the proble...

Tense and Aspect in Sentence and Discourse