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
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290932.003.0009
 

Ernest Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
This chapter takes up the treatment of the simple tenses, past, present, future, and the progressive. Tense is treated as introducing a restricted indexical quantifier over times which binds an implicit argument place in tensed verbs. It is also argued that the progressive is not properly treated as a tense of the verb from which it is derived.
Keywords: future tense, present tense, past tense, progressive
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290932.003.0009
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