Text, Time, and Context Selected Papers of Carlota S. Smith /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meier, Richard P. (Editor), Aristar-Dry, Helen (Editor), Destruel, Emilie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 87
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Linguistics, general.

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Smith, who died in 2...

Table of Contents:

• Aspect
• A Speaker-Based Approach to Aspect
• Aspectual Categories in Navajo
• Activities: States or Events?
• Tense
• The Syntax and Interpretation of Temporal Expressions in English
• The Temporal Reference of the English Futurate
• The Domain of Tense
• Tense and Context in French
• The Acquisition of Tense
• The Acquisition of Time Talk: Relations Between Child and Adult Grammars
• The Acquisition of Tense: Bootstrapping into Syntax
• Discourse Structure and Discourse Modes
• Sentences in Discourse: an Analysis of a Discourse by Bertrand Russell
• The Vagueness of Sentences in Isolation
• Temporal Structures in Discourse
• Temporal Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
• Context and Interpretation
• Some Significant Omissions: Ellipses in Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple
• Accounting for Subjectivity (Point of View).