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    The document discusses tense and aspect in language and how they relate to speech time, reference time, and event time. It explains that tense relates speech time and reference time, while aspect relates reference time and event time. It discusses the existential status of sentences as historical, non-historical, or semi-historical based on the relationship between the reference and relation components. It also presents Demirdache and Uribe-Extebarria's model of temporal structure with TP, T', T0, AspP, Asp', and VP layers. Finally, it categorizes temporal adverbials as anchored/deictic, unanchored, durational, frequency, or completive.

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    The document discusses tense and aspect in language and how they relate to speech time, reference time, and event time. It explains that tense relates speech time and reference time, while aspect relates reference time and event time. It discusses the existential status of sentences as historical, non-historical, or semi-historical based on the relationship between the reference and relation components. It also presents Demirdache and Uribe-Extebarria's model of temporal structure with TP, T', T0, AspP, Asp', and VP layers. Finally, it categorizes temporal adverbials as anchored/deictic, unanchored, durational, frequency, or completive.

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    Tense

    The temporal interpreta/on of


    sentences
    •  Reichenbach 1947
    Speech Time
    Reference Time
    Event Time
    a.  Henry was born in 1980.
    b.  Henry will be 30 next January.
    c.  Henry’s son will already have been born next
    January.



    Tense relates ST & RT – The Reference Component

    Aspect relates RT & ET – The Rela1on Component


    (Johnson 1981, Stowell 1994, Smith 1991, Comrie
    1984)
    •  Existen1al status of a sentence: the rela/on
    between the reference component and the
    rela/on component:
    •  historical: ET before ST
    •  non-historical: ET aPer ST
    •  semi-historical: ET = ST
    a.  At five I was buying a present for a friend.
    b.  I have bought her a present.
    c.  He had bought the present at five o’clock.
    •  Demirdache & Uribe-Extebarria (1997,
    2000,2002)
    TP
    ST T’
    T0 AspP
    RT Asp’
    Asp0 VP
    ET


    Temporal adverbials:
    •  anchored, deic/c, ST-oriented: now,
    yesterday, the day before yesterday, next
    year, last year

    •  unanchored: in June, in a week


    Temporal adverbials
    •  dura/onal: for an hour
    •  frequency: every hour
    •  comple/ve: in an hour

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