Representing Time in Natural Language : The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect Book

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
1.1	What Are Aspectual Classes?	1
1.2	Controlling the Flow of Information: Filters, Plugs, and Holes	5
1.3	Situated Reasoning about Time	12
Ch. 2	The Aspectual Verbs	19
2.1	The Linguistic Data	19
2.2	Negation and Duality: The Basic Tools	25
2.3	Monotonicity Properties	31
2.4	The Aspectual Cube	34
Ch. 3	Dynamic Aspect Trees	39
3.1	Aspect as Control Structure	39
3.2	DATs for Texts	42
3.3	Reasoning with DATs: Chronoscopes	52
3.4	DATs: Their Syntax and Semantics	56
Ch. 4	States, Generic Information, and Constraints	63
4.1	Transient States	63
4.2	Progressive and Perfect States	66
4.3	Generic Information	70
4.4	Conditionals and Temporal Quantification	72
Ch. 5	Perspectives	77
5.1	Perspectival Coherence and Chronoscopes	78
5.2	Perspectival Refinement	82
5.3	Perspectival Binding	88
5.4	Scenes and Scenarios	90
Ch. 6	A Fragment of English	93
6.1	Syntax and Lexicon	94
6.2	DAT Rules	100
6.3	Semantics	103
6.4	Further Issues	108
Ch. 7	Epilogue	111
7.1	Cognition and Semantic Representation	111
7.2	Referring with Parameters	113
7.3	Naturalized Semantic Realism and Universal Grammar	116
	Notes	123
	Bibliography	131
	Index	141