Semantics of Tense and Aspect

(http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~saurer/lehre/SemRaumZeit/tense-and-aspect.html)

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Seminar
B.Sc., M.Sc.
Instructor: Werner Saurer

Wed 9-11, Building 17.1, Room U.12
Begin: 21 April  2004

Inhalt

Tense and aspect are important and ubiquitous natural language categories.

In this seminar we will read and discuss various papers on the problems and phenomena of tense and aspect and their treatment within the framework of fomal, modeltheoretic semantics. A first impression of the problems and phenomena can be gained from the following web page:  http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~saurer/lehre/SemRaumZeit/TAA-phenomena.html.   

Literature (in Institute Library)

Various papers and book chapters. See seminar schedule below.

For course mechanics - how to get credit and how many, etc. - see German version of this page.


Seminar schedule - planned and  actual dates

Date

Wed

 Session

Nr.   

                   Thema der Sitzung   Referent/in




21. 04. 04    1 Kurze Vorstellung des Themas;  Verteilung der Referate W. Saurer
28. 04. 04    2 Einführung in Semantik von Tempus und Aspekt (eine Synopsis) W. Saurer
05. 05. 04    3
 Kurze Einführung/Wiederholung in die Zeitlogik W. Saurer
12. 05. 04    4 keine Sitzung
19. 05. 04    5 Vendler, Z. 1967, "Verbs and times". In Vendler, Z. Linguistics in Philosophy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
26. 05. 04    6 Taylor, B., 1977, "Tense and Continuity". Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 199-220.
02. 06. 04    7 Dowty, D. 1977, "Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English 'imperfective' progressive". Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 45-77.
09. 06. 04    8 Moens, M. und M. Steedman 1988, "Temporal ontology and temporal reference".Computational Linguistics 14, 15-28.
16. 06. 04    9 Reichenbach, H. 1947, "The tenses of verbs". In Elements of Symboic Logic.New York: Macmillan.
23. 06. 04   10 Aquist L. 1976, "Formal Semantics for verb tenses as analysed by Reichenbach". In Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Pragmatics of Language and Literature. Amsterdam: North Holland.
30. 06. 04   11 Kamp, H. und C. Rohrer 1983, "Tense in texts". In R. Bäuerle et al. (eds.), Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language . Berlin: de Gruyter.
07. 07. 04   12 Kamp, H. und U. Reyle 1993, From Discourse to Logic. Chapter 5 "Tense and Aspect". Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
14. 07. 04   13 Das Perfekt im Englischen. (Literatur wird noch angekündigt.)

Office hours:

Wed  2-3 pm, Building 17.2,Room 1.08, Tel. 302-4177
E-mail Werner Saurer