Arche, María J. (2025) The phrase structure of temporal interpretation: a note about the past. In: Arche, María J., Zwart, Jan-Wouter, Demirdache, Hamida and Borer, Hagit, (eds.) Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell. Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today (288). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 327-358. (doi:10.1075/la.288.15arc)

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Abstract

This work presents a unified account for instances of past tense which, contrary to expectations, do not shift the evaluation to an anterior time but to one that is either simultaneous with another one (sequence of tense) or to one that is posterior to another moment, even posterior to the speech time (futurates). It capitalizes on the idea that temporal and modal categories introduce time-denoting arguments which are subject to grammar general principles (Stowell 1993, 2007; Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2000, 2014) and this suffices to derive the temporal calculus of clauses. The paper takes the conceptual drive to eliminate restructuring rules launched by Stowell (1981) to its ultimate consequences for temporal interpretation by exploiting the functioning of temporal predicates alone.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	tense, phrase structure, syntax models
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2025 11:39
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48594

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