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Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Domain Temporal Expressions
Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Domain Temporal Expressions
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103054
- ISBN
- 9798286424498
- DDC
- 401
- 저자명
- Zhao, Zhuoye.
- 서명/저자
- Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Domain Temporal Expressions
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 277 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Schlenker, Philippe.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation makes progress on the temporal semantics in both tensed and tenseless languages by drawing attention to the similarities and connections between temporal expressions and several adjacent empirical domains.Tense is commonly construed as a deictic category. While much discussion has been devoted to uncover the nature of its deixis, relatively little attention is paid to the deictic center. Part I (join work with Anastasia Tsilia) addresses this question on the basis of a previously-established typology of tense shift comprising tensed languages such as Modern Greek, Modern Hebrew, Russian and Japanese. We propose that tense as a deictic category is comparable to indexicals, in that the deictic center should be drawn from a parameter, which we call the temporal perspective parameter, that has global effect on an interpretation domain, similar to the utterance context. The proposal is primarily motivated by a cross-linguistically attested incompatibility between (shifted) present and the temporal adverbials that semantically approximates the temporally distal adverbial then in English. On this basis, tense shift results from the shift of the temporal perspective via a syntactically present shifting operator. The theory also extends to a clarification of a previous conflation between a shifted present and a deleted tense. Finally, we caution that the temporal perspective parameter should be distinguished from more familiar interpretation parameters such as the utterance context and the evaluation index.Part II contains a discussion on the temporal particles in Mandarin, a tenseless language. I propose a cross-domain hypothesis, which states that the temporal particles in Mandarin are actually general-purpose functional particles that interact with various semantic domains in a parallel fashion. The hypothesis is examined through, and supported by, three case studies, including the experiential marker guo, the past/perfective morpheme le and its negative counterpart mei-you. It is shown that apart from their temporal uses, all three expressions receive distinct, atemporal interpretations in comparative constructions, and the temporal and atemporal uses are subject to parallel, semantically conditioned combinatorial restrictions. On this basis, I develop an analysis that treats these functional items as imposing structural relations that are generally applicable to different semantic domains, whether it is a timeline or a degree scale. Specifically, the past interpretations are generated on a par with degree comparisons through general 'precedence' relations - an eventuality precedes a time of evaluation, just like the standard of comparison is lower on the degree scale than the target of comparison.
- 일반주제명
- Linguistics
- 일반주제명
- Language
- 키워드
- Semantics
- 키워드
- Drawing
- 키워드
- Parallel fashion
- 기타저자
- New York University Linguistics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
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■650 4▼aLanguage
■653 ▼aSemantics
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■653 ▼aUtterance context
■653 ▼aDrawing
■653 ▼aParallel fashion
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