Do Sentences Have Tense?
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چکیده
A fact often not made explicit by syntacticians is that these labels need to be interpreted in semantics. The semantics of tenses has been formulated as a theory of temporal reference since the seminal work of Reichenbach (1947). Subsequently this theory has been integrated into a theory of context change, which widens the domain of tense semantics from the sentence to discourse (Kamp. 1979, Kamp & Rohrer 1983). Functional linguistics since Weinrich (1964, 1971) investigates the role tenses play in textual organization and discourse pragmatics.
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