The semantics of the future/
Bridget Copley
- New York: Routledge, 2009.
- xiv, 157 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
1 Introduction -- 1.1 Tools -- 1.1.1 Syntactic Assumptions -- 1.1.2 The Intensional System -- 1.1.3 Tense and Aspect -- 1.1.4 Talking About Times -- 1.1.5 Modality -- 1.1.5.1 The Modal Base -- 1.1.5.2 The ordering source -- 1.1.6 Branching Futures: Times and Worlds -- 1.2 Overview -- 2 Futurates. 2.1 Futurate Meaning -- 2.1.1 An Initial Hypothesis -- 2.1.2 Problem #1: The Status of the Plan -- 2.1.3 Problem #2: Speaker Confidence -- 2.1.4 Getting Smarter about Plans -- 2.1.5 Intuitions about Plans -- 2.1.5.1 On Being Committed -- 2.1.5.2 On Ability -- 2.1.5.3 On Changes -- 2.1.6 A Solution -- 2.1.6.1 Formal Beginnings -- 2.1.6.2 Scopal Relations in the Definition of Direction -- 2.1.6.3 Ability and Accidental Directors -- 2.1.7 Simple Futurates -- viii Table of Contents -- 2.1.8 Futurates Without Directors -- 2.1.9 Summary -- 2.2 Mapping Futurate Meaning onto Morphosyntax -- 2.2.1 The Location of ALL-b -- 2.2.2 ALL-b in Progressive Futurates -- 2.2.2.1 Dowty's Modal Progressive -- 2.2.2.2 Ongoing Readings of Progressives -- 2.2.2.3 A Temporal Issue -- 2.2.3 ALL-b in Simple Futurates -- 2.2.3.1 Ordering in Generics -- 2.2.3.2 The Principle of the Excluded Middle Revisited -- 2.2.3.3 Generics and the Simple Futurate Presupposition -- 2.2.3.4 Summary -- 2.2.4 On Directors in the Syntax -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Futures. 3.1 Ordering and Aspect in Futures -- 3.1.1 Ordering in Futures -- 3.1.1.1 Inertial and Bouletic Construals of Futures -- 3.1.1.2 Different Directions -- 3.1.1.3 Inertial Differences -- 3.1.1.4 Bouletic Differences -- 3.1.1.5 Summary -- 3.1.2 Aspect in Futures -- 3.1.2.1 Present Temporal Input -- 3.1.2.1.1 Contexts that Rule Out Generics -- 3.1.2.1.2 Some Unbelievable Data -- 3.1.2.2 Indefinites -- 3.1.2.3 Distinguishing Bare and Generic Will -- 3.1.2.4 Summary -- 3.2 Aspect Constrains the Accessibility Relation -- 3.2.1 The Pragmatics of Offering -- 3.2.2 Back to the Billboard -- 3.2.3 Proposal -- 3.2.4 Explaining the Puzzle -- 3.3 Aspectual-Modal Interactions in Past Futures -- 3.3.1 Fate-in-Hindsight -- 3.3.2 No Past Bouletic Generics -- 3.4 Dispositional Will -- 3.4.1 Genericity in Dispositional Will -- 3.4.2 Dissimilarities with Generic Will -- 3.4.3 Towards a Hypothesis -- 3.4.4 Facts from Indonesian -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Conditionals. 4.1 Conditional Contexts -- 4.1.1 Relevance Conditionals -- 4.1.2 Indication and Causal Contexts -- 4.1.3 Wide Scope Be Going To -- 4.2 Main Verbs and the Complement SIP Effect -- 4.2.1 Wide Be Going To Has the Complement SIP Effect -- 4.2.2 Bare Will Has the Complement SIP Effect -- 4.2.2.1 On the Scope of Bare Will -- 4.2.2.2 On the Missing Readings of Bare Will -- 4.2.3 Summary -- 4.3 Implementing the Mechanism -- 4.3.1 The Mechanism -- 4.3.2 Temporal Interpretation of Antecedent and Consequent -- 4.3.2.1 Lemma 1: Type 1 Conditionals -- 4.3.2.2 Lemma 2: Type 2 Conditionals -- 4.3.2.3 Which Conditional is Which? -- 4.3.2.4 Why the SIP Value of p Doesn't Matter -- 4.3.3 Formal Details -- 4.3.4 Summary -- 4.4 Simultaneous States -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion -- 5.1 Facts Addressed -- 5.2 Remaining Questions -- 5.2.1 Non-futurate future-oriented presents -- 5.2.2 No future marking.
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