Situations, tense, and aspect

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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Part I. Discourse Ontology -- Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 1. Events as intensional entities -- 2. Delineation of basic situations and constellations -- 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations -- 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference -- 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions -- 6. Expressions of identity conditions -- 7. Entities of types (i, e) and (i, s): roles and institutions -- 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies -- 9. Conclusion -- Part II. The Temporal Order: Tense and Aspect in Discourse -- Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 1. Model of regions and situations -- 2. Overview of Tenses and Aspects -- 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time -- 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system -- 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times -- 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 1. Scope phenomena -- 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes -- 3. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index