Logic of Narratives

EunHee Lee, Ph.D. (2000), University of Groningen, is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Her main research areas are Semantics and Second Language Acquisition. She has published articles in major linguistics journals and is (co-)author of three books, Korean Tense and aspect in Narrative Discourse (Eastern Art Publishing, 2012), Introduction to Korean Linguistics (Routledge, 2016), and Korean Syntax and Semantics (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

• List of Figures and TablesPart 1 Foundations1 Introduction1 Why the “Logic” of Narratives?2 An Overview of the Book2 Narrative Structure1 Defining Narratives2 The Temporal Interpretation of Narratives3 Coherence3 The Theoretical Toolkit1 Dynamic Semantics2 Discourse Representation Theory3 Perspectival DRTPart 2 Timeline4 Tense and Aspect1 Tense in Narratives2 Narrative Progression and Aspect3 A PDRT Analysis of Tense and Aspect5 The Pluperfect1 Background2 A Corpus Study of the Pluperfect in Narratives3 A PDRT Analysis of the Pluperfect6 The Progressive1 Background2 A Corpus Study of the Progressive in Narratives3 A PDRT Analysis of the Progressive7 Temporal Adverb Now1 Background2 A Corpus Study of Now3 A PDRT Analysis of NowPart 3 Character8 Free Indirect Discourse1 Background2 An Empirical Study of FID3 A PDRT Analysis for FID9 Indexicals1 Background2 An Empirical Study3 A PDRT Analysis of Indexicals10 Definite NP s1 Background2 An Empirical Study3 A DRT Analysis of Definites11 Expressives1 Background2 An Empirical Study of Expressives3 A PDRT Analysis of Expressives12 Conclusion1 Summary2 Linguistic Study of Narratives and Its ImplicationsAppendix: Episode Structure of The DeadReferencesIndex