附註:"Updated versions of talks first presented at the International Round Table on the Syntax of Tense and Aspect in November 2000 at the Université Paris 7"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians / J.F. Staal, editor -- 2. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar / Ray Jackendo -- 3. The Structure of the Japanese Language / Susumu Kuno -- 4. Speech Sounds and Features / Gunnar Fant -- 5. On Raising : One Rule of English Grammar and Its Theoretical Implications / Paul M. Postal -- 6. French Syntax : The Transformational Cycle / Richard S. Kayne -- 7. Panini as a Variationist / Paul Kiparsky, S.D. Joshi, editor -- 8. Semantics and Cognition / Ray Jackendo -- 9. Modularity in Syntax : A Study of Japanese and English / Ann Kathleen Farmer -- 10. Phonology and Syntax : The Relation between Sound and Structure / Elisabeth O. Selkirk -- 11. The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance : Language Use and Acquisition / Robert C. Berwick and Amy S. Weinberg -- 12. Introduction to the Theory of Grammar / Henk van Riemsdijk and Edwin Williams -- 13. Word and Sentence Prosody in Serbocroatian / Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivic -- 14. The Representation of (In)definiteness / Eric J. Reuland and Alice G.B. ter Meulen, editors -- 15. An Essay on Stress / Morris Halle and Jean-Roger Vergnaud -- 16. Language and Problems of Knowledge : The Managua Lectures / Noam Chomsky -- 17. A Course in GB Syntax : Lectures on Binding and Empty Categories / Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka -- 18. Semantic Structures / Ray Jackendo -- 19. Events in the Semantics of English : A Study in Subatomic Semantics / Terence Parsons -- 20. Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar / Robert Freidin, editor -- 21. Foundations of Generative Syntax / Robert Freidin -- 22. Move a : Conditions on Its Application and Output / Howard Lasnik and Mamoru Saito -- 23. Plurals and Events / Barry Schein -- 24. The View from Building 20 : Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger / Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, editors -- 25. Grounded Phonology / Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank -- 26. The Magic of a Common Language : Jakobson, Mathesius
摘要:Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their human participants. How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, offers a way to address this problem. The studies collected in The Syntax of Time investigate whether problems concerning the construal of tense and aspect can be reduced to syntactic problems for which the basic mechanism and principles of generative grammar already provide solutions. These studies, recent work by leading international scholars in the field, offer varied perspectives on the syntax of tense and the temporal construal of events: models of tense interpretation, construal of verbal forms, temporal aspect versus lexical aspect, the relation between the event and its argument structure, and the interaction of case with aktionsart or tense construal. Advances in the theory of temporal interpretation in the sentence are also applied to the temporal interpretation of nominals.
