The Domain of Tense
The Domain of Tense
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时态范围
DOI：
10.1007/978-90-481-2617-0_6
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Carlota Smith
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作者：
Carlota Smith
时态的句法域是分句：时态以某种形式出现在时态语言的每个分句中。然而，时态的语义解释需要来自上下文的信息。这一点至少在Partee（1984）对时态的照应性质的论证之后就已经很清楚了。在这一章中，我将说明，关于语境的事实是相当复杂的，也许比人们所认识到的还要复杂。根据小句所处的语篇语境的不同，时态解释有三种模式。我将引入话语模式的概念来解释不同类型的语境。我在语篇表征理论中对时态进行了解释，语篇表征理论是一个用来处理来自上下文的信息的框架。我还表明，一个句法为基础的理论可以处理上下文为基础的时态解释。
The syntactic domain of tense is the clause: tense appears in some form in every clause of a tensed language. Semantic interpretation of tense requires information from context, however. This has been clear at least since Partee’s (1984) demonstration of the anaphoric properties of tense. In this chapter, I will show that the facts about context are quite complex, perhaps more so than has been appreciated. There are three patterns of tense interpretation according to the type of discourse context in which a clause appears. I will introduce the notion of discourse mode to account for the different types of context. I offer an interpretation of tense in Discourse Representation Theory, a framework that is organized to deal with information from the context. I also show that a syntactically based theory can handle contextually based tense interpretation.