Die temporalen Elemente des Englischen und deren Zeitbezug in fiktionalen narrativen Texten: Semantik, Pragmatik und nicht-monotone Inferenzen in einem indexikalischen Modell temporaler Bedeutung

Linguistic expressions referring to time play an important role in modern literary texts in English. This volume inquires into the way the information content of linguistic elements enables the reader to reconstruct the temporal relations expressed in the text. Numerous important theories on the linguistics of temporal expressions are given a critical review and combined to form an integrated theoretical framework for analysis. The approach thus developed is then applied to studies of the perfect tense and adverbials of time in English.