Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Lepore, Ernest Rutgers University, New Jersey
Ludwig, Kirk University of Florida, Gainesville
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929093-2




9 Temporal Adverbials and Quantifiers
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290932.003.0010

Ernest Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Abstract: This chapter discusses relational temporal adverbs and adverbials, the interaction of tense with ‘before’ and ‘after’, temporal quantifiers, habitual sentences, and frequency adverbs, and the relation of temporal adverbials to the event analysis of adverbial modification.

Keywords: before, after, temporal quantifiers, habitual sentences, frequency adverbs,

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Full Book Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Truth-Theoretic Semantics: Basic Framework
2 Quantifiers
3 Implementation of the Extension of the Truth Theory to Quantifiers
4 Proper Names, Indexicals, and Simple Demonstratives
5 Complex Demonstratives
6 The Semantics of Quotation
7 Adjectives and Adverbs
8 The Simple Tenses of State and Event Verbs
9 Temporal Adverbials and Quantifiers
10 Tense in Sentential Complements and the Perfect Tenses
11 Opaque Contexts: Indirect Discourse and Attitude Sentences
12 Non-Declarative Sentences
13 Semantic Structure and Logical Form
14 Truth and Correspondence
Summary
Bibliography
Index
 
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