About determiners on event descriptions, about time being like space (when we talk), and about one particularly strange construction
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Iatridou, Sabine
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August 2014
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Natural Language Semantics
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Springer Netherlands
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Iatridou, Sabine. “About Determiners on Event Descriptions, About Time Being Like Space (when We Talk), and About One Particularly Strange Construction.” Natural Language Semantics 22, no. 3 (August 1, 2014): 219–263.
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Abstract
This paper should be read against the backdrop of three lines of linguistic investigation: (1) the investigation of the Perfect construction, which has received considerable attention, going back to Reichenbach (Elements of symbolic logic, 1947); (2) the working hypothesis that certain verbal constructions can be described in terms of the semantics of determiners on nominal expressions, with which we are more familiar; (3) the common observation that we talk about time the way we talk about space. The focus of the paper is a particular construction in Greek. As always, however, the search for the solution of a particular question reveals many other questions in the process and this paper should be seen as being also about a number of related puzzles in English and other languages.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-014-9105-5
