The Pragmatics and Semantics of Temporal Meaning
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چکیده
In all languages, sentences convey information that allows people to locate situations in time. Languages vary: some have tense and tense-like forms, others do not. I will suggest general pragmatic principles to account for how temporal location works in language. The principles have different realizations according to the forms that are syntactically obligatory in a given language. I will begin by introducing the general principles, in Section 1; Section 2 gives some necessary preliminaries to the analysis; Sections 3-5 discuss Mandarin Chinese, Navajo, and English; Section 6 concludes. In an appendix, I show how to formalize the analysis of Mandarin within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory.
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