We use STAG to model the interaction between demonstratives and tense found in Blackfoot (Algonquian). In clauses with no tense or aspect marking, past tense can be encoded through a distal demonstrative on either the internal argument (transitives, unaccusatives) or the external argument (unergatives). A fourth class of predicate, semantically transitive but syntactically intransitive with a p...

The paper accounts for an unexpected embedded present tense, which denotes a future time in French relative clauses. matrix displays either the periphrastic or simple future. In both cases, one can arguably decompose into tense feature and forward shifter. This move leads to analysis of morphology encountered clause as instance Sequence tense.

It is shown that in Israeli Hebrew, as well as in Biblical Hebrew, the location of stress may have a “phonemic” function, in that it distinguishes between otherwise identical morphophonological patterns. Stress location can determine syntactic, temporal and similar categorial differences as well as semantic nuances. This study presents a general description of ‘mobile’ vs. ‘fixed’ stress in Isr...

In this paper, we transform the issue of Chinese-English tense conversion into the issue of tagging a Chinese tense tree. And then we propose Markov Tree Tagging Model to tag nodes of the untagged tense tree with English tenses. Experimental results show that the method is much better than linear-based CRF tagging for the issue.

The generation of regular and irregular past tense verbs has been an important issue in cognitive science and has been used to advance different models of the organization of language in the brain. The dual-system view holds that the regular past tense forms are generated by a rule while irregular forms are retrieved from memory. The single-system view, on the other hand, holds that both forms ...

Backshift is a phenomenon affecting verb tense that is visible as a mismatch between some specific embedded contexts and other environments. For instance, the indirect speech equivalent of a sentence like Kim likes reading, with a present tense verb, may show the same verb in a past tense form, as in Sandy said Kim liked reading. We present a general analysis of backshift, pooling data from Eng...

This paper describes preliminary work relating tense to implicit role reference. Past work has shown that tense affects the resolution of other reference types such as pronouns as well as discourse structure (Webber, 1988; Hwang and Schubert, 1992). We extend this claim to the reference of implicit roles. We annotated a small corpus for NPs and VPs and tense information and show, in some cases,...