Temporality : universals and variation

Content: List of Figures ix     Acknowledgments xiii     Glosses xv     Introduction 1     Part I Semantic Universals 13     1 Direct Semantic Composition 15     1.1 Simple Type Logic (TL0) 16     1.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English 17     1.3 Dynamic Type Logic (DL0) 23     1.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English 27     1.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of English-Based Logics 34     2 Nominal Reference with Centering 41     2.1 Center v. Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists 42     2.2 Kalaallisut Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 48     2.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as Top-Level Anaphora 53     2.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora 57     2.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0) 61     3 Tense as Temporal Centering 67     3.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 68     3.2 Polish Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 69     3.3 English Tenses as Temporal (In)definites 73     3.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 78     3.5 UC0 with Temporal Centering (UCtau) 85     4 Aspect as Eventuality Centering 93     4.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections 94     4.2 Mandarin Aspect Features v. Particles 101     4.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries 108     4.4 UCtau with Mereology (UCtau+) 112     5 Quantification as Reference to Sets 118     5.1 Nominal Quantification and Anaphora 119     5.2 Nominal Quantification and Temporal Reference 127     5.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora 130     5.4 UCtau+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCtau?a) 134     6 Mood as Illocutionary Centering 142     6.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative Recentering 143     6.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference 146     6.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents 150     6.4 Dependent Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering 157     6.5 UCdelta?a with Illocutionary Referents (UCepsilon!?a) 160     7 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports 166     7.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited 167     7.2 At-Issue Reports with Finite Complements 174     7.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite Complements 179     7.4 UC: Combining UCtau?a and UCepsilon!?a 185     Part II Temporal Variation 191     8 Tense-Based Temporality in English 193     8.1 Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 194     8.2 Indexical Non-Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 200     8.3 Reports: Speaker\'s View of Subject\'s (Non-)Past 203     8.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts 206     8.5 A CG.UC Fragment of English 209     9 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish 219     9.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective 220     9.2 Relative Non-Past (Im)perfective 226     9.3 Reports: Subject\'s (Non-)Past 230     9.4 Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives 233     9.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Polish 237     10 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin 246     10.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Topic State 247     10.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment 253     10.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment 257     10.4 Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment 260     10.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Mandarin 262     11 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut 272     11.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities 273     11.2 Future: Verifiable Eventualities with Future c-Points 278     11.3 Reports: Verifiability from Agent\'s Perspective 282     11.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits 287     11.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut 290     Conclusion 298     Bibliography 308     Author Index 319     Subject Index 323