German Perfect

• 1: Introduction.- 1. Outline.- 2. Tense and aspect.- 3. Contexts and temporal specifications.- 4. The tenses in German.- 5. Temporal interpretation and individuals.- 6. A formal semantic implementation of tense and aspect.- 7. Conclusion.- 2: The Semantics Of The Present Perfect.- 1. Perfectly compositional.- 2. The morphosyntactic source of the anteriority component.- 3. The stativity of perfect constructions.- 4. Identifying the synchronic anteriority component: an optimality approach to focus effects.- 5. Conclusion, formal semantic account, and refinements.- 3: The Meaning Effects Of The Present Perfect.- 1. The problem.- 2. The effects of the present perfect.- 3. Previous accounts.- 4. How pragmatic principles operate on the semantics.- 5. Why past tense and present perfect often can be substituted by each other.- 6. Completedness effects.- 7. Indefiniteness effects.- 8. Present relevance.- 9. Stage-level-to-individual-level switches: Mozart’s lung disease.- 10. Individual-level-to-stage-level switches: temporary intelligence.- 11. English vs. German: Einstein and Princeton.- 12. Conclusion.- 4: Types Of Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Quantificational adverbials, position adverbials, and duration adverbials.- 3. Duration adverbials and situation types.- 4. Distinguishing position and duration adverbials.- 5. The interpretation of nonquantificational temporal adverbials.- 5: Interactions With Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The formal integration of temporal adverbials in semantic representations.- 3. Temporal adverbials on the tense level, aspect level, and participle level.- 4. Temporal adverbials as frame-setting modifiers.- 5. Temporal adverbials as restrictors of nontemporal quantifiers.- 6. Temporal adverbials below the participlelevel.- 7. Temporal adverbials with quantificational and nonquantificational components.- 8. Iteration of adverbials on a single level.- 9. On universal perfect readings.- 10. Remarks concerning negation.- 11. Summary.- 6: The Contribution Of Particular Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Seit-adverbials: ‘up-to-TT’ interpretations.- 3. Extended now theories of perfect constructions: apparent evidence by up-to-TT-adverbials and why it is misleading.- 4. Existential and universal perfect readings.- 5. Temporal bis-adverbials: ‘TT-independent’ interpretations.- 6. Temporal in-adverbials.- 7. Adverbials of the type x-lang.- 8. Conclusion.- 7: Temporal Subordinate Clauses, Conjunctions, And Matrix Clauses.- 1. Introduction.- 2.’ simultaneity’ between main clause and subclause.- 3. Time parameters of the main clause before time parameters of the subclause.- 4. Time parameters of the main clause after time parameters of the subclause.- 5. Durational subclauses: solange (‘as long as’).- 6. Conclusion.- 8: On The Syntax Of Temporal Adverbials.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The unmarked surface order of temporal adverbials of a single level.- 3. Preposing of temporal adverbials in English.- 4. ‘Topicalization’ of temporal adverbials in German.- 5. Scrambling of temporal adverbials.- 6. Summary: base positions and surface positions of temporal adverbials.- 9: Conclusion.- References.

From the reviews: "This book provides an in-depth overview of perfect constructions in German and offers an extensive account of their uses from the perspective of a formal semantic framework. It also considers many pragmatic factors as well as particular characteristics of German Syntax...A thorough conclusion, list of references, and index make this work a useful manual for (advanced) students and scholars."(Linde Roels, LANGUAGE, volume 81, issue 3, page 784, 2005)