Tense in embedded contexts

This dissertation investigates the semantics of tense and the temporal interpretation of tensed and tenseless predicates in natural language. The central question we are concerned with is whether natural language employs explicit quantification over times in the object language. Our answer to the qu...

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Main Author: Kusumoto, Kiyomi
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1999
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9950177