Overview

James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference. The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all those involved in the study of current semantics, and its interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields.

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Author:   James Higginbotham (, University of Southern California)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   No. 26
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.579kg
ISBN:  

9780199239313

ISBN 10:   0199239312
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   29 October 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: On Events in Linguistic Semantics 2: Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence 3: Tensed Toughts 4: Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard 5: Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory? 6: The Anaphoric Theory of Tense 7: Accomplishments 8: The English progressive 9: The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events 10: Competence With Demonstratives 11: A Plea for Implicit Anaphora 12: Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person

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a highly influential and innovative combination of syntactic analysis ... accompanied by careful and rigorous semantic analysis. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Philosophy in Review XXXI

Author Information

James Higginbotham is Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was formerly Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the nature of linguistic competence, problems of compositionality, and indexical reference in thought and communication. He has published widely in linguistics and philosophy and is equally at home in both fields.

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