Temporality

Maria Bittner is a Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Semantics and Semantics & Pragmatics. She is well known for her work on cross-linguistic formal semantics, dynamic semantics, and syntax-semantics interface, with special focus on Kalaallisut (Eskimo-Aleut: Greenland). Her early research in LF-based static semantics culminated in Case, Scope, and Binding (1994).

• List of Figures ixAcknowledgments xiiiGlosses xvIntroduction 1Part I Semantic Universals 131 Direct Semantic Composition 151.1 Simple Type Logic (TL0) 161.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English 171.3 Dynamic Type Logic (DL0) 231.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English 271.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of English-Based Logics 342 Nominal Reference with Centering 412.1 Center v. Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists 422.2 Kalaallisut Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 482.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as Top-Level Anaphora 532.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora 572.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0) 613 Tense as Temporal Centering 673.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 683.2 Polish Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 693.3 English Tenses as Temporal (In)definites 733.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 783.5 UC0 with Temporal Centering (UCτ) 854 Aspect as Eventuality Centering 934.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections 944.2 Mandarin Aspect Features v. Particles 1014.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries 1084.4 UCτ with Mereology (UCτ+) 1125 Quantification as Reference to Sets 1185.1 Nominal Quantification and Anaphora 1195.2 Nominal Quantification and Temporal Reference 1275.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora 1305.4 UCτ+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCτ?a) 1346 Mood as Illocutionary Centering 1426.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative Recentering 1436.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference 1466.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents 1506.4 Dependent Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering 1576.5 UCδ?a with Illocutionary Referents (UCε!?a) 1607 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports 1667.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited 1677.2 At-Issue Reports with Finite Complements 1747.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite Complements 1797.4 UC: Combining UCτ?a and UCε!?a 185Part II Temporal Variation 1918 Tense-Based Temporality in English 1938.1 Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 1948.2 Indexical Non-Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 2008.3 Reports: Speaker’s View of Subject’s (Non-)Past 2038.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts 2068.5 A CG.UC Fragment of English 2099 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish 2199.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective 2209.2 Relative Non-Past (Im)perfective 2269.3 Reports: Subject’s (Non-)Past 2309.4 Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives 2339.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Polish 23710 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin 24610.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Topic State 24710.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment 25310.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment 25710.4 Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment 26010.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Mandarin 26211 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut 27211.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities 27311.2 Future: Verifiable Eventualities with Future c-Points 27811.3 Reports: Verifiability from Agent's Perspective 28211.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits 28711.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut 290Conclusion 298Bibliography 308Author Index 319Subject Index 323